Adjusting Mortality for Loss to Follow-Up: Analysis of Five ART Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Martin W. G. Brinkhof ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Ben D. Spycher

  Affiliation Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Ben D. Spycher ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Ben D. Spycher

  Affiliation Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Constantin Yiannoutsos,

  Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

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• Ralf Weigel,

  Affiliation Lighthouse Trust at Kamuzu Central Hospital and Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Robin Wood,

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Eugène Messou,

  Affiliation Programme PAC-CI, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

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• Andrew Boulle,

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Matthias Egger ,

  * E-mail: egger@ispm.unibe.ch

  Affiliation Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Jonathan A. C. Sterne,

  Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• for the International epidemiological Database to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)