A Cluster Randomized Trial of Routine HIV-1 Viral Load Monitoring in Zambia: Study Design, Implementation, and Baseline Cohort Characteristics

• John R. Koethe ,

  * E-mail: john.r.koethe@vanderbilt.edu

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Andrew O. Westfall,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Dora K. Luhanga,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Gina M. Clark,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Jason D. Goldman,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Priscilla L. Mulenga,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Ronald A. Cantrell,

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Benjamin H. Chi,

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Isaac Zulu,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Michael S. Saag,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Jeffrey S. A. Stringer

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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