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Despite considerable gains in the treatment of PLWH, DD is increasingly recognised as a threat to successful treatment and prevention. PLWH incur higher health-related costs than the general population due to chronic care management needs. We aimed to estimate the combined economic burden of DD and HIV amongst PLWH and explore their mechanisms of coping with high-of-pocket health expenditure. This was a cost of illness study nested in a cluster-randomized trial that assessed the effectiveness of integrating treatment of DD into routine HIV care in Uganda (HIV+D trial). The study used cross-sectional data collected from 1115 PLWH across both trial arms at baseline, using the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) to measure DD and a structured cost questionnaire. 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