Effect of eliminating CD4-count thresholds on HIV treatment initiation in South Africa: An empirical modeling study

• Jacob Bor ,

  * E-mail: jbor@bu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Africa Health Research Institute, Somkhele and Durban, South Africa, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Shahira Ahmed,

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Matthew P. Fox,

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Sydney Rosen,

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Gesine Meyer-Rath,

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0439-381X

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• Ingrid T. Katz,

  Affiliations Division of Women’s Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States, Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

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• Frank Tanser,

  Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Somkhele and Durban, South Africa

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• Deenan Pillay,

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Somkhele and Durban, South Africa, Department of Virology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Till Bärnighausen

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Somkhele and Durban, South Africa, Heidelberg Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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