We thank Sharma and Joshi
1
for their kind interest in our work. However, they seemed to have misunderstood the
inclusion criteria in our study.
2
We are also puzzled by their criticism of the Taiwan national HIV case management
system and universal health coverage, under which 92% of all diagnosed individuals
were receiving antiretroviral therapy.
2
,3
More perplexingly, the subgroup analyses they request are already reported in the
main results of our article (page 239, Table 3).
2
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