Life expectancy in Africa: Back to the future?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 265-266

  Cotton, Deborah ^a  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; MORTALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UGANDA; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 80051641213     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-155-4-201108160-00359     Document Type: Editorial

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