Factors Associated with Retention to Care in an HIV Clinic in Gabon, Central Africa

Saskia Janssen; Rosanne Willemijn Wieten; Sebastiaan Stolp; Anne Lia Cremers; Elie Gide Rossatanga; Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch; Sabine Belard; Martin Peter Grobusch

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140746

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Factors Associated with Retention to Care in an HIV Clinic in Gabon, Central Africa

Saskia Janssen ,

* E-mail: s.janssen@amc.uva.nl

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Centre de Traitement Ambulatoire, Lambaréné, Gabon, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Rosanne Willemijn Wieten,

Affiliation Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Sebastiaan Stolp,

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon
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Anne Lia Cremers,

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon
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Elie Gide Rossatanga,

Affiliation Centre de Traitement Ambulatoire, Lambaréné, Gabon
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Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch,

Affiliations Julius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Sabine Belard,

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
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Martin Peter Grobusch

Affiliations Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné (CERMEL), Lambaréné, Gabon, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Clinical Infectious Diseases Research Initiative, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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Factors Associated with Retention to Care in an HIV Clinic in Gabon, Central Africa

Saskia Janssen,
Rosanne Willemijn Wieten,
Sebastiaan Stolp,
Anne Lia Cremers,
Elie Gide Rossatanga,
Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch,
Sabine Belard,
Martin Peter Grobusch

Published: October 16, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140746

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