Treatment initiation among persons diagnosed with drug resistant tuberculosis in Johannesburg, South Africa

• Denise Evans ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: devans@heroza.org

  Affiliation Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-1228

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• Kathryn Schnippel,

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

  Affiliations Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Right to Care, Johannesburg, South Africa, Clinical HIV Research Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Caroline Govathson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Tembeka Sineke,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Andrew Black,

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

  Affiliation Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Lawrence Long,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Rebecca Berhanu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Sydney Rosen

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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