Discontinuing cotrimoxazole preventive therapy in HIV-infected adults who are stable on antiretroviral treatment in Uganda (COSTOP): A randomised placebo controlled trial

Zacchaeus Anywaine; Jonathan Levin; Ronnie Kasirye; Joseph Kayiira Lutaakome; Andrew Abaasa; Andrew Nunn; Heiner Grosskurth; Paula Munderi; on behalf of the COSTOP research team

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206907

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Discontinuing cotrimoxazole preventive therapy in HIV-infected adults who are stable on antiretroviral treatment in Uganda (COSTOP): A randomised placebo controlled trial

Zacchaeus Anywaine ,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Zacchaeus.Anywaine@mrcuganda.org

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-5515

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Jonathan Levin,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Ronnie Kasirye,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda
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Joseph Kayiira Lutaakome,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda
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Andrew Abaasa,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda
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Andrew Nunn,

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

Affiliation MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Heiner Grosskurth,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Paula Munderi,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: International Association of Providers of AIDS Care, Washington DC, United States of America

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda
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on behalf of the COSTOP research team

¶Membership of the COSTOP research team is provided in the Acknowledgments.
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Discontinuing cotrimoxazole preventive therapy in HIV-infected adults who are stable on antiretroviral treatment in Uganda (COSTOP): A randomised placebo controlled trial

Zacchaeus Anywaine,
Jonathan Levin,
Ronnie Kasirye,
Joseph Kayiira Lutaakome,
Andrew Abaasa,
Andrew Nunn,
Heiner Grosskurth,
Paula Munderi,
on behalf of the COSTOP research team

Published: December 31, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206907

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