Late entry into HIV care: lessons from Brazil, 2003 to 2006
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Late entry into HIV care: lessons from Brazil, 2003 to 2006
BACKGROUND To ascertain the population rates and proportion of late entry into HIV care, as well as to determine whether such late entry correlates with individual and contextual factors. METHODS Data for the 2003-2006 period in Brazil were obtained from public health records. A case of late entry into HIV care was defined as one in which HIV infection was diagnosed at death, one in which HIV...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Infectious Diseases
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-99