Are we shifting attrition downstream in the HIV cascade?

The Lancet HIV

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2016, Pages e554-e555

  Fox, Matthew P ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MORTALITY; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84996605730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23523018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(16)30149-7     Document Type: Note

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