The prognostic value of the World Health Organisation staging system for HIV infection and disease in rural Uganda

AIDS

Volumn 13, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2555-2562

  Malamba, Samuel S ^b   Morgan, Dilys ^c   Tim, Clayton ^a   Mayanja, Billy ^c   Okongo, Martin ^c   Whitworth, Jimmy ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UGANDA VIRUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Uganda)

^c NONE

Author keywords

HIV infection; Natural history; Prognostic value; Rural Africa; WHO staging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEVER; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SURVIVAL RATE; THRUSH; UGANDA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UGANDA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0005795439     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199912240-00009     Document Type: Article

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