Identifying deaths from AIDS in South Africa.

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Published in AIDS on January 28, 2005

Authors

Pam Groenewald1, Nadine Nannan, David Bourne, Ria Laubscher, Debbie Bradshaw

Author Affiliations

1: Burden of Disease Research Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa, Tygerberg, South Africa.

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