Impact of highly active antiretroviral treatment on HIV seroincidence among men who have sex with men: San Francisco.

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Published in Am J Public Health on March 01, 2002

Authors

Mitchell H Katz1, Sandra K Schwarcz, Timothy A Kellogg, Jeffrey D Klausner, James W Dilley, Steven Gibson, William McFarland

Author Affiliations

1: San Francisco Department of Public Health, 101 Grove Street, Room 308, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA. mitch_katz@dph.sf.ca.us

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