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    Performance of verbal autopsy methods in estimating HIV-associated mortality among adults in South Africa
    (BMJ, 2018-07-03) Karat, Aaron S.; Maraba, Noriah; Tlali, Mpho; Charalambous, Salome; Chihota, Violet N.; Churchyard, Gavin J.; Fielding, Katherine L.; Hanifa, Yasmeen; Johnson, Suzanne; McCarthy, Kerrigan M.; Kahn, Kathleen; Chandramohan, Daniel; Grant, Alison D.; Topp, Stephanie M.
    Introduction Verbal autopsy (VA) can be integrated into civil registration and vital statistics systems, but its accuracy in determining HIV-associated causes of death (CoD) is uncertain. We assessed the sensitivity and specificity of VA questions in determining HIV status and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and compared HIV-associated mortality fractions assigned by different VA interpretation methods.
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    Verbal autopsy-assigned causes of death among adults being investigated for TB in South Africa
    (Oxford University Press, 2016-10-28) Maraba, Noriah; Karat, Aaron S.; McCarthy, Kerrigan; Churchyard, Gavin J.; Charalambous, Salome; Kahn, Kathleen; Grant, Alison D.; Chihota, Violet
    Background: Adults being investigated for TB in South Africa experience high mortality, yet causes of death (CoD) are not well defined. We determined CoD in this population using verbal autopsy (VA), and compared HIV- and TB-associated CoD using physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA) and InterVA-4 software.