Survival on antiretroviral treatment among adult HIV-infected patients in Nepal: a retrospective cohort study in Far-western region, 2006-2011.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on December 26, 2013

Authors

Laxmi Bhatta1, Elise Klouman, Keshab Deuba, Rachana Shrestha, Deepak Kumar Karki, Anna Mia Ekstrom, Luai Awad Ahmed

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. lax_b1@yahoo.com.

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