Funding for this research was provided by:
KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
US National Institutes for Health's Comprehensive International Programme of Research on AIDS grant (AI51794)
Columbia university- South Africa Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Programme (D43 TW000231)
Article History
Received: 7 June 2017
Accepted: 5 April 2018
First Online: 25 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (BREC, reference number: E248/05) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
: As this was a retrospective review that presents aggregate programme data only, consent was obtained from the local ethics review board for use of anonymised data for publication. No individual level patient data is being presented hence individual patient informed consent was deemed not necessary.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.