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Mortality and loss-to-follow-up during the pre-treatment period in an antiretroviral therapy programme under normal health service conditions in Uganda

BACKGROUND: In many HIV programmes in Africa, patients are assessed clinically and prepared for antiretroviral treatment over a period of 4–12 weeks. Mortality rates following initiation of ART are very high largely because patients present late with advanced disease. The rates of mortality and rete...

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Autores principales: Amuron, Barbara, Namara, Geoffrey, Birungi, Josephine, Nabiryo, Christine, Levin, Jonathan, Grosskurth, Heiner, Coutinho, Alex, Jaffar, Shabbar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19671185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-9-290