Parental and child-level predictors of HIV testing uptake, seropositivity and treatment initiation among children and adolescents in Cameroon

Habakkuk A. Yumo; Rogers A. Ajeh; Isidore Sieleunou; Jackson N. Ndenkeh Jr.; Michael R. Jordan; Nadia A. Sam-Agudu; Christopher Kuaban; Thomas Loescher

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0230988

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Parental and child-level predictors of HIV testing uptake, seropositivity and treatment initiation among children and adolescents in Cameroon

Habakkuk A. Yumo ,

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

* E-mail: ha.yumo12@gmail.com

Affiliations Research for Development International (R4D International), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Center for International Health (CIH), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5192-0964

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Rogers A. Ajeh,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research for Development International (R4D International), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon
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Isidore Sieleunou,

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research for Development International (R4D International), Yaoundé, Cameroon, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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Jackson N. Ndenkeh Jr.,

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Research for Development International (R4D International), Yaoundé, Cameroon, Center for International Health (CIH), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Michael R. Jordan,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Nadia A. Sam-Agudu,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria, Institute of Human Virology and Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Christopher Kuaban,

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bamenda, Bamenda, Cameroon
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Thomas Loescher

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for International Health (CIH), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Parental and child-level predictors of HIV testing uptake, seropositivity and treatment initiation among children and adolescents in Cameroon

Habakkuk A. Yumo,
Rogers A. Ajeh,
Isidore Sieleunou,
Jackson N. Ndenkeh Jr.,
Michael R. Jordan,
Nadia A. Sam-Agudu,
Christopher Kuaban,
Thomas Loescher

Published: April 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230988

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