Infections interplay with non-communicable diseases.
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In this September issue, we bring you very diverse, but interesting, papers. South African authors have written for us about the quality of rapid HIV testing and testers’ compliance.1 They found sub-standard practices in relation to testing – a matter of concern. Nigerian authors on the other hand report adverse outcomes of TB-HIV patients at PEPFAR/DOTS centres2, while Ethiopian authors have similar results.3
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- African health sciences
دوره 16 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016