Mortality of HIV-infected patients starting antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: comparison with HIV-unrelated mortality.

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Published in PLoS Med on April 28, 2009

Authors

Martin W G Brinkhof1, Andrew Boulle, Ralf Weigel, Eugène Messou, Colin Mathers, Catherine Orrell, François Dabis, Margaret Pascoe, Matthias Egger, International Epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland.

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