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Feasibility of a large cohort study in sub-Saharan Africa assessed through a four-country study

Shona DalalDepartment of EpidemiologyHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Michelle D. HolmesDepartment of EpidemiologyHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA;Channing Division of Network MedicineDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Carien LaurenceCentre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
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Francis BajunirweDepartment of Community HealthMbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda
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David GuwatuddeDepartment of Epidemiology & BiostatisticsMakerere School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
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Marina NjelekelaDepartment of PhysiologyMuhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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Clement AdebamowoInstitute of Human VirologyAbuja, Nigeria;Greenebaum Cancer Center and Institute of Human VirologyUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Joan Nankya-MutyobaDepartment of Epidemiology & BiostatisticsMakerere School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
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Faraja S. ChiwangaDepartment of Internal MedicineMuhimbili National Hospital,, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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Jimmy VolminkCentre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa;The South African Cochrane Centre, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
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Ikeoluwapo AjayiDepartment of Epidemiology and Medical StatisticsFaculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Robert KalyesubulaDepartment of MedicineMakerere School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda
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Todd G. ReidDepartment of EpidemiologyHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Douglas DockeryDepartment of Environmental HealthHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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David HemenwayDepartment of Health Policy and ManagementHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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Hans-Olov AdamiDepartment of EpidemiologyHarvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA;Department of Medical Epidemiology and BiostatisticsKarolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Article: 27422 | Received 28 Jan 2015, Accepted 13 Apr 2015, Published online: 25 May 2015

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