Uptake of HIV testing and outcomes within a Community-based Therapeutic Care (CTC) programme to treat severe acute malnutrition in Malawi: a descriptive study.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on July 31, 2008

Authors

Paluku Bahwere1, Ellen Piwoz, Marthias C Joshua, Kate Sadler, Caroline H Grobler-Tanner, Saul Guerrero, Steve Collins

Author Affiliations

1: Valid International, Unit 9, Standingford House, 26 Cave Street, Oxford, OX4 1BA, UK. paluku@validinternational.org

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