Morbidity and mortality among a cohort of HIV-infected adults in a programme for community home-based care, in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania (2003-2005)

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 263-273

  Tillekeratne, L G ^a   Thielman, N M ^a,b   Kiwera, R A ^c   Chu, H Y ^a   Kaale, L ^c   Morpeth, S C ^a   Ostermann, J ^e   Mtweve, S P ^f,g   Shao, J F ^f,g   Bartlett, J A ^a,c,f,g   Crump, J A ^a,c,f,g  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c

^d Tanzania

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^g KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ODYNOPHAGIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TANZANIA; THRUSH; WEAKNESS; COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMICS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65249128496     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485909X398203     Document Type: Article

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