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Uptake of HIV testing and outcomes within a Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) programme to treat Severe Acute Malnutrition in Malawi: a descriptive study
BACKGROUND: In Malawi and other high HIV prevalence countries, studies suggest that more than 30% of all severely malnourished children admitted to inpatient nutrition rehabilitation units are HIV-infected. However, clinical algorithms designed to diagnose paediatric HIV are neither sensitive nor sp...
Autores principales: | Bahwere, Paluku, Piwoz, Ellen, Joshua, Marthias C, Sadler, Kate, Grobler-Tanner, Caroline H, Guerrero, Saul, Collins, Steve |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2536666/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18671876 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-8-106 |
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