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. 2021 Oct;141(10):2533-2536.e2.
doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2021.02.758. Epub 2021 Apr 14.

Global Disparities in Skin Cancer Services at HIV Treatment Centers across 29 Countries

Devon E McMahon  1 , Aggrey Semeere  2 , Miriam Laker-Oketta  2 , Helen Byakwaga  2 , Catrina Mugglin  3 , Stephany N Duda  4 , Iskandar Azwa  5 , Antoine Jaquet  6 , Sandra Wagner Cardoso  7 , Denis Nash  8 , C William Wester  4 , Esther E Freeman  9 ; International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)
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Global Disparities in Skin Cancer Services at HIV Treatment Centers across 29 Countries

Devon E McMahon et al. J Invest Dermatol. 2021 Oct.
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors state they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical Considerations: All study sites and their respective IeDEA coordinating centers had Institutional Review Board approvals that permitted collection of site-level data for the study. The Partners Healthcare human research committee/IRB determined this site-level data did not meet the definition of human subjects research.

Data Availability Statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) which follows the National Institutes of Health data sharing policy. Data can be requested through IeDEA (www.iedea.org).

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Figure 1:
Cascade of care for patients with skin cancer in low and middle income countries, depicting potential losses of patients over time from provider first suspecting skin cancer to the patient achieving sustained cancer remission. For diagnostic tests only, the cost to the patient is depicted.
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