Strengthening health systems to improve the value of tuberculosis diagnostics in South Africa: A cost and cost-effectiveness analysis

• Nicola Foster ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nicola.foster@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliations Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Division of Health Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom, TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4630-6243

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• Lucy Cunnama,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2134-4905

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• Kerrigan McCarthy,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Public Health, Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Disease of the National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-9795

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• Lebogang Ramma,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Mariana Siapka,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Edina Sinanovic,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, 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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• Gavin Churchyard,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Katherine Fielding,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Alison D. Grant,

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

  Affiliations TB Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa Health Research Institute, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Susan Cleary

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, 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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