Optimal uses of antiretrovirals for prevention in HIV-1 serodiscordant heterosexual couples in South Africa: a modelling study.

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Published in PLoS Med on November 15, 2011

Authors

Timothy B Hallett1, Jared M Baeten, Renee Heffron, Ruanne Barnabas, Guy de Bruyn, Íde Cremin, Sinead Delany, Geoffrey P Garnett, Glenda Gray, Leigh Johnson, James McIntyre, Helen Rees, Connie Celum

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. timothy.hallett@imperial.ac.uk

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