A retrospective case-cohort study comparing treatment outcomes in abacavir versus stavudine containing first line antiretroviral treatment regimens in children <3yrs old, at a paediatric programme based in Soweto, South Africa

• Haseena Cassim ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cassimh@phru.co.za

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3709-6547

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• Kennedy Otwombe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Erica Lazarus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Afaaf Liberty,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Glenda E. Gray,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Parow Valley, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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• Oppel B. W. Greeff,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Avy Violari

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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