Coming home to die? The association between migration and mortality in rural Tanzania before and after ART scale-up

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue SUPP.1, 2014, Pages

  Levira, Francis ^a   Todd, Jim ^b   Masanja, Honorati ^a  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

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

Author keywords

ART; ARV; External migration; HIV; Internal migration; Mortality; Residents; Rural urban migrants; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904400227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.22956     Document Type: Article

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