AIDS impact on health insurance.
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چکیده
The limited available studies show that the latency period for AIDS is long and variable. In the San Francisco Health Department study, which followed 507 homosexual and bisexual men, the median latency period between infection and the development of full-blown AIDS was 9 years, 8 months. Some 62% were expected to develop AIDS within 12 years after infection. However, the median latency period may differ for people who were exposed to the HIV in other ways.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of insurance medicine
دوره 23 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1991