High rates of death and loss to follow-up by 12 months of rifampicin resistant TB treatment in South Africa

• Kamban Hirasen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: khirasen@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/0000-0001-9531-9230

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• Rebecca Berhanu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, 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, Division of infectious diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States of America

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• Denise Evans,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, 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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• Sydney Rosen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, 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, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Ian Sanne,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, 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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• Lawrence Long

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, 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, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States of America

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