About the Authors
- Agnes Binagwaho
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* E-mail: abinagwaho@gmail.com
Affiliations Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Elisabetta Pegurri
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Affiliation UNAIDS-Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Peter C. Drobac
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Affiliations Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Partners In Health – Inshuti Mu Buzima, Kigali, Rwanda, Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda
- Placidie Mugwaneza
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Affiliation Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda
- Sara N. Stulac
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Affiliations Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Claire M. Wagner
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Affiliation Global Health Delivery Partnership, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Corine Karema
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Affiliation Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda
- Landry Tsague
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Affiliation UNICEF-Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Competing Interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Author Contributions
Provided direction on the research question and context of the health sector in Rwanda: AB. Contributed to data analysis: AB. Interpreted results: AB. Drafted manuscript discussion and conclusion: AB. Developed cost-effectiveness model and matrices for data collection: EP. Ran model and sensitivity analysis: EP. Drafted methodology, findings and interpretation of results: EP. Provided revisions to discussion and conclusion: EP. Participated in justifying costing assumptions and algorithms: PCD. Reviewed and interpreted results: PCD. Drafted part of the manuscript and made revisions: PCD. Provided information and guidance on PMTCT program data: PM. Participated in review of data analysis and drafting of discussion: PM. Provided data on formula options: SNS. Contributed to drafting and review of manuscript: SNS. Contributed to review and analysis of results: CMW. Drafted manuscript discussion and conclusion: CMW. Provided revisions to manuscript: CMW. Contributed to development of research question: CK. Facilitated data collection: CK. Contributed to data analysis and manuscript drafts: CK. Conducted literature review for development of cost-effectiveness model: LT. Contributed to interpretation of results and writing manuscript background and discussion: LT. Conceived and designed the experiments: AB EP PCD PM SNS CMW CK LT. Performed the experiments: EP. Analyzed the data: AB EP PCD PM SNS CMW CK LT. Wrote the paper: AB EP PCD PM SNS CMW CK LT.