Effect of Peer Health Workers on AIDS Care in Rakai, Uganda: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Larry W. Chang; Joseph Kagaayi; Gertrude Nakigozi; Victor Ssempijja; Arnold H. Packer; David Serwadda; Thomas C. Quinn; Ronald H. Gray; Robert C. Bollinger; Steven J. Reynolds

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010923

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Effect of Peer Health Workers on AIDS Care in Rakai, Uganda: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Larry W. Chang ,

* E-mail: lchang8@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Joseph Kagaayi,

Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda
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Gertrude Nakigozi,

Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda
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Victor Ssempijja,

Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda
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Arnold H. Packer,

Affiliation Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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David Serwadda,

Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda
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Thomas C. Quinn,

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Ronald H. Gray,

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Robert C. Bollinger,

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Steven J. Reynolds

Affiliations Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Effect of Peer Health Workers on AIDS Care in Rakai, Uganda: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

Larry W. Chang,
Joseph Kagaayi,
Gertrude Nakigozi,
Victor Ssempijja,
Arnold H. Packer,
David Serwadda,
Thomas C. Quinn,
Ronald H. Gray,
Robert C. Bollinger,
Steven J. Reynolds

Published: June 2, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010923

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Publisher's Note: Minor Correction

Posted by larrywillchang on 02 Jun 2010 at 21:02 GMT

Substudy analysis of the mobile phone support intervention among the PHWs found no statistically significant differences comparing Arm A1 to Arm A2 for all virologic and non-virologic outcomes (data not shown).
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010923#article1.body1.sec3.p6

We intended for this sentence to be deleted from the final publication, and apologize for its inclusion. While preliminary analyses did not find any differences between the subarms (A1 vs. A2), this statement may not end up being true after we have completed all of our ongoing, in-depth substudy analyses.

No competing interests declared.

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Publisher's Note: Minor Correction

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