CD4 count recovery and associated factors among individuals enrolled in the South African antiretroviral therapy programme: An analysis of national laboratory based data

• Tendesayi Kufa ,

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

  * E-mail: tendesayikc@nicd.ac.za, tendesayik@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, Johannesburg, South Africa, The School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-616X

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• Zara Shubber,

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

  Affiliation The World Bank Group, Washington D.C., United States of America

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• William MacLeod,

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

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office (HE2RO), Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8003-8874

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• Simbarashe Takuva,

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

  Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6030-2359

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• Sergio Carmona,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Priority Programmes, National Health Laboratory Services, Sandringham, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Jacob Bor,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

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• Marelize Gorgens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The World Bank Group, Washington D.C., United States of America

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• Yogan Pillay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Adrian Puren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Sandringham, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Virology, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Jeffrey W. Eaton,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7728-728X

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• Nicole Fraser-Hurt

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

  Affiliation The World Bank Group, Washington D.C., United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-8666

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