Characteristics and short- and long-term direct medical costs among adults with timely and delayed presentation for HIV care in the Netherlands

• Stephanie Popping ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Popping, Lisbeth Versteegh

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

  * E-mail: S.Popping@erasmusmc.nl

  Affiliations Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8959-4671

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• Lisbeth Versteegh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephanie Popping, Lisbeth Versteegh

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

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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• Brooke E. Nichols,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States of America, Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Medical Microbiology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• David A. M. C. van de Vijver,

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

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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• Ard van Sighem,

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

  Affiliation Stichting HIV Monitoring, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6656-0516

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• Peter Reiss,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Stichting HIV Monitoring, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Global Health, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7896-6428

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• Suzanne Geerlings,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Infection and Immunity Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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• Charles A. B. Boucher †,

  † Deceased.

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

  Affiliation Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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• Annelies Verbon,

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

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

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• on behalf of the ATHENA observational cohort

  ¶Membership of the ATHENA observational cohort is listed in the Acknowledgments.

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