Care cascade structural intervention versus standard of care in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV in China: a cluster-randomized controlled trial protocol

• Main Authors: Yurong Mao (Author), Zunyou Wu (Author), Jennifer M. McGoogan (Author), David Liu (Author), Diane Gu (Author), Lynda Erinoff (Author), Walter Ling (Author), Paul VanVeldhuisen (Author), Roger Detels (Author), Albert L. Hasson (Author), Robert Lindblad (Author), Julio S. G. Montaner (Author), Zhenzhu Tang (Author), Yan Zhao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The high rate of attrition along the care cascade of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) results in lost opportunities to provide timely antiretroviral therapy (ART) and to prevent unnecessarily high mortality. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a struct...