Reviewer’s report Title: Specification of Implementation Interventions to Address the Cascade of HIV Care and Treatment in Resource Limited Settings: a Systematic Review
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This article addresses an important topic, how to increase intervention implementation to improve HIV care. The literature reviewed is extensive, a large amount of data has been extracted, and the authors have described several limitations with this literature that will be of interest to clinicians and groups working in this area. However, there are a number of substantial issues with the manuscript in its current form which would need to be addressed before publication.
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Specification of implementation interventions to address the cascade of HIV care and treatment in resource-limited settings: a systematic review
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Remove both references to "proposed by Proctor et al" in the Abstract (Reference will be sufficient in the main body of the text). Change "Dissemination of standards such as those proposed by Proctor et al. for reporting can promote transparency, reproducibility and scientific accumulation" to "Dissemination of standards for reporting intervention characteristics can promote transparency, repro...
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تاریخ انتشار 2017