Insurability of HIV-positive people treated with antiretroviral therapy in Europe: collaborative analysis of HIV cohort studies.

"Conflicts of interest J.K.B., W.D. and U.W. are employees of SwissRe: this company may benefit financially from increased insurability of HIV-positive lives. The ART Cohort Collaboration is supported by the UK Medical Research Council (grants G0700820 and MR/J002380/1). Salaries of M.M. and S.I. were funded by MRC grants G0700820 and MR/J002380/1. Sources of funding of individual cohorts include the Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le SIDA et les hépatites virales (ANRS), the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the French, Italian, Spanish Ministries of Health, the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 33CS30_134277), the Stichting HIV Monitoring, the European Commission (EuroCoord grant 260694), the Spanish Network for AIDS Research (RIS; ISCIII-RETIC RD06/006). Ethical approval: Institutional review boards from each cohort approved analysis of routinely collected data to be used for research purposes. The ART Cohort Collaboration does not require ethical approval as all data is anonymised before transfer to ART-CC."

"Conflicts of interestJ.K.B., W.D. and U.W. are employees of SwissRe: this company may benefit financially from increased insurability of HIV-positive lives.The ART Cohort Collaboration is supported by the UK Medical Research Council (grants G0700820 and MR/J002380/1). Salaries of M.M. and S.I. were funded by MRC grants G0700820 and MR/J002380/1. Sources of funding of individual cohorts include the Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le SIDA et les hépatites virales (ANRS), the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the French, Italian, Spanish Ministries of Health, the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 33CS30_134277), the Stichting HIV Monitoring, the European Commission (EuroCoord grant 260694), the Spanish Network for AIDS Research (RIS; ISCIII-RETIC RD06/006).Ethical approval: Institutional review boards from each cohort approved analysis of routinely collected data to be used for research purposes. The ART Cohort Collaboration does not require ethical approval as all data is anonymised before transfer to ART-CC. The ART Cohort Collaboration is supported by the UK Medical Research Council (grants G0700820 and MR/J002380/1). Salaries of M.M. and S.I. were funded by MRC grants G0700820 and MR/J002380/1. Sources of funding of individual cohorts include the Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le SIDA et les hépatites virales (ANRS), the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the French, Italian, Spanish Ministries of Health, the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant 33CS30_134277), the Stichting HIV Monitoring, the European Commission (EuroCoord grant 260694), the Spanish Network for AIDS Research (RIS; ISCIII-RETIC RD06/006)."