Respondents were asked whether they were covered by health insurance through reimbursement or direct payment for medical or surgical expenses. Based on this, we constituted a binary variable for assessing the status of health insurance ownership (no health insurance/owned health insurance). Outcome vari...
Laboratory tests: Blood samples were drawn every six months for measuring CD4 counts (single platform flow cytometry assay; Guava Technologies Inc., Hayward, CA, USA) and plasma viral load (in-house Real Time PCR assay; Molecular Diagnostics and Genetics, Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai, India)....