Concurrency driving the African HIV epidemics: where is the evidence?

The Lancet

Volumn 374, Issue 9699, 2009, Pages 1420-

  Lurie, Mark ^a   Rosenthal, Samantha ^a   Williams, Brian ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; SEXUALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CAUSALITY; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 70350113451     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61860-2     Document Type: Letter

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