Health, wellbeing, and disability among older people infected or affected by HIV in Uganda and South Africa.

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Published in Glob Health Action on January 23, 2013

Authors

Makandwe Nyirenda1, Marie-Louise Newell, Joseph Mugisha, Portia C Mutevedzi, Janet Seeley, Francien Scholten, Paul Kowal

Author Affiliations

1: Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa. mnyirenda@africacentre.ac.za

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