Diagnosis disclosure to adolescents living with HIV in rural Kenya improves antiretroviral therapy adherence and immunologic outcomes: A retrospective cohort study

• Gregg Joseph Montalto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gregg Joseph Montalto, Fredrick K. Sawe, Argwings Miruka

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gregg.j.montalto.mil@mail.mil

  Affiliation Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4020-2657

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• Fredrick K. Sawe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gregg Joseph Montalto, Fredrick K. Sawe, Argwings Miruka

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Walter Reed Project, Kericho, Kenya

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• Argwings Miruka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gregg Joseph Montalto, Fredrick K. Sawe, Argwings Miruka

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Walter Reed Project, Kericho, Kenya

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• Jonah Maswai ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Walter Reed Project, Kericho, Kenya

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• Ignatius Kiptoo ,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Walter Reed Project, Kericho, Kenya

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• Appolonia Aoko ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Walter Reed Project, Kericho, Kenya

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• Chrispine Oreyo ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Walter Reed Project, Kericho, Kenya

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• Eunice Obiero ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ministry of Medical Services, Kericho District Hospital, Kericho, Kenya

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• Sheila Korir ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ministry of Medical Services, Kericho District Hospital, Kericho, Kenya

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• Stephen K. Bii ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Ministry of Medical Services, Kericho District Hospital, Kericho, Kenya

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• Katherine X. Song ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation United States Military HIV Research Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Anjali N. Kunz

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, United States of America

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