It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it: The pitfalls of using routine data to measure early infant HIV diagnosis in HIV-exposed infants

• Elizabeth Chappell ,

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

  * E-mail: e.chappell@ucl.ac.uk

  Affiliation MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1053-6434

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• Claire Thorne,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

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• Intira Jeannie Collins,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, United Kingdom

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• Kathy Baisley,

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

  Affiliations MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Africa Health Research Institute, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• H. Manisha Yapa,

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

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, The Kirby Institute University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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• Dickman Gareta,

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

  Affiliation Africa Health Research Institute, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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• Till Bärnighausen ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Institute for Global Health UCL, Mortimer Market Centre, London, United Kingdom

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• Kobus Herbst ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Africa Health Research Institute, Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, DSI-MRC South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN), Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5436-9386

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• Ali Judd

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, United Kingdom

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