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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...
Autores principales: | Amuron, Barbara, Namara, Geoffrey, Birungi, Josephine, Nabiryo, Christine, Levin, Jonathan, Grosskurth, Heiner, Coutinho, Alex, Jaffar, Shabbar |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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