HIV treatment as prevention: optimising the impact of expanded HIV treatment programmes.

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Published in PLoS Med on July 10, 2012

Authors

Wim Delva1, Jeffrey W Eaton, Fei Meng, Christophe Fraser, Richard G White, Peter Vickerman, Marie-Claude Boily, Timothy B Hallett

Author Affiliations

1: South African Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation Centre for Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Wim.Delva@ugent.be

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