Treatment initiation, program attrition and patient treatment outcomes associated with scale-up and decentralization of HIV care in rural Malawi.

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Published in PLoS One on October 15, 2012

Authors

Megan McGuire1, Loretxu Pinoges, Rupa Kanapathipillai, Tamika Munyenyembe, Martha Huckabee, Simon Makombe, Elisabeth Szumilin, Annette Heinzelmann, Mar Pujades-Rodríguez

Author Affiliations

1: Epicentre, Clinical Research Department, Nairobi, Kenya.

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