Loss to programme between HIV diagnosis and initiation of antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in Trop Med Int Health on September 20, 2012

Authors

Catrina Mugglin1, Janne Estill, Gilles Wandeler, Nicole Bender, Matthias Egger, Thomas Gsponer, Olivia Keiser, IeDEA Southern Africa

Author Affiliations

1: Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland  Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland  School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

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