Assessment of a pilot antiretroviral drug therapy programme in Uganda: patients' response, survival, and drug resistance.

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Published in Lancet on July 06, 2002

Authors

Paul J Weidle1, Samuel Malamba, Raymond Mwebaze, Catherine Sozi, Gideon Rukundo, Robert Downing, Debra Hanson, Dorothy Ochola, Peter Mugyenyi, Jonathan Mermin, Badara Samb, Eve Lackritz

Author Affiliations

1: Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. pweidle@cdc.gov

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