Cohort profile: improving treatment of HIV-infected Ethiopian children through better detection of treatment failure in southern Ethiopia.

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Published in BMJ Open on February 28, 2017

Authors

Birkneh Tilahun Tadesse1, Byron Alexander Foster2, Degu Jerene3, Andrea Ruff4

Author Affiliations

1: Hawassa University, Department of Pediatrics, Hawassa, Ethiopia.
2: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
3: Management Sciences for Health, Health Programs Group, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
4: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

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