Background: Evidence-based HIV interventions often fail to reach anticipated impact due to
insufficient utilization in real-world health systems. Human-centered design (HCD) …

… the 2-year period of observation of this study that is contingent on surviving into this period.
This approach is analogous to life expectancy estimates. Mortality estimates were carried out …

… Competing interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have
the following competing interests: EHG is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine…

Background Retention in HIV treatment must be improved to advance the HIV response, but
research to characterize gaps in retention has focused on estimates from single time points …

… This study is not without limitations. From a sampling point of view, we believe these
reasons are widely representative, but we had incomplete response rates as only 61% of those …

Background: Dynamic movement of patients in and out of HIV care is prevalent, but there is
limited information on patterns of patient re-engagement or predictors of return to guide HIV …

… Based on the interview scripts, memos and dialogue, we created chronological narratives
of each patient’s care journey describing contexts and events that influenced their …

… As HIV care is life-long and mobility is a normal part of livelihood and social practices,
improving our understanding of the experience and safety of transfers across facilities is …

… men and women receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) is incompletely characterized. …
Compared to women in the same age groups, men’s mortality rates were particularly elevated …

… It is thus imperative that we develop a more comprehensive understanding of the heterogeneity
in the HIV patient population to develop such targeted strategies to optimize the impact …