Lessons from a systematic tracing process aimed to reduce initial loss to follow-up (ILTFU) among people diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in Cape Town, South Africa

• Nosivuyile Vanqa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nvanqa@sun.ac.za, nosivuyile@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2774-5622

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• Lario Viljoen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4039-6639

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• Graeme Hoddinott,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Anneke Hesseling,

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

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

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• Muhammad Osman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa, Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences, School of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3818-9729

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• Sue-Ann Meehan

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0826-1833

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