Patient costs incurred by people living with HIV/AIDS prior to ART initiation in primary healthcare facilities in Gauteng, South Africa

• Natasha Pillai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Social and Mathematical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9468-3986

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• Nicola Foster,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Yasmeen Hanifa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Nontobeko Ndlovu,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Katherine Fielding,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Gavin Churchyard,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Violet Chihota,

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

  Affiliations Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Alison D. Grant,

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

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa Health Research Institute, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Anna Vassall

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

  * E-mail: Anna.Vassall@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliation Social and Mathematical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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