The problem of late ART initiation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a transient aspect of scale-up or a long-term phenomenon?

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Published in J Health Care Poor Underserved on February 01, 2013

Authors

Maria Lahuerta1, Frances Ue, Susie Hoffman, Batya Elul, Sarah Gorrell Kulkarni, Yingfeng Wu, Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, Robert H Remien, Wafaa El Sadr, Denis Nash

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1: ICAP-Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA. ml2842@columbia.edu

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