Lower rates of ART initiation and decreased retention among ART-naïve patients who consume alcohol enrolling in HIV care and treatment programs in Kenya and Uganda

• Ioannis Patsis,

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

  Affiliation Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Suzanne Goodrich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Constantin T. Yiannoutsos ,

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

  * E-mail: cyiannou@iu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9014-3651

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• Steven A. Brown,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Beverly S. Musick,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Lameck Diero,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya

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• Jayne L. Kulzer,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3314-9891

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• Mwembesa Bosco Bwana,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Patrick Oyaro,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya

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• Kara K. Wools-Kaloustian

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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