Correction: Public-Health and Individual Approaches to Antiretroviral Therapy: Township South Africa and Switzerland Compared
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Copyright: © 2008 Keiser et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Table 1. Baseline Characteristics of Patients Starting HAART in Khayelitsha and Gugulethu, South Africa and the Swiss HIV Cohort Study Category Subcategory South African Cohorts Swiss HIV Cohort
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- PLoS Medicine
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008