Impact of baseline health and community support on antiretroviral treatment outcomes in HIV patients in South Africa.

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Published in AIDS on November 30, 2008

Authors

Edwin Wouters1, Wim Van Damme, Dingie van Rensburg, Herman Meulemans

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Sociology and Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium. edwin.wouters@ua.ac.be

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