Progress and challenges in modelling country-level HIV/AIDS epidemics: The UNAIDS estimation and projection package 2007

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 84, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Brown, Tim ^a   Salomon, J A ^b   Alkema, L ^c   Raftery, A E ^c   Gouws, E ^d  

^a EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

^b Harvard Initiative for Global Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNAIDS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCERTAINTY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 49149089763     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sti.2008.030437     Document Type: Article

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