Evaluating two adjustment methods to extrapolate HIV prevalence from pregnant women to the general female population in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Published in AIDS on February 14, 2003

Authors

Massimo Fabiani1, Knut Fylkesnes, Barbara Nattabi, Emingtone O Ayella, Silvia Declich

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy. fabiani@iss.it

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