Mortality in an antiretroviral therapy programme in Jinja, south-east Uganda: a prospective cohort study.

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Published in AIDS Res Ther on October 22, 2011

Authors

Barbara Amuron1, Jonathan Levin, Josephine Birunghi, Geoffrey Namara, Alex Coutinho, Heiner Grosskurth, Shabbar Jaffar

Author Affiliations

1: Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. shabbar.jaffar@lshtm.ac.uk.

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