Characterizing HIV status documentation among cancer patients at regional cancer centers in Malawi, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committees, and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study received ethical approval from the University of Washington Institutional Review Board, University of North Carolina Institutional Review Board, Malawi National Health Sciences Research Committee, University of the Witwatersrand Human Research Ethics Committee (Medical), and the Joint Research Ethics Committee for the University of Zimbabwe Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsAll authors declare they have no competing interests. Competing interests All authors declare they have no competing interests."

"Funding This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R21 AI155055) and National Cancer Institute (T32 CA080416)."