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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.