HIV mortality in urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya 2003–2010: a period effect analysis
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HIV mortality in urban slums of Nairobi, Kenya 2003–2010: a period effect analysis
BACKGROUND It has been almost a decade since HIV was declared a national disaster in Kenya. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) provision has been a mainstay of HIV treatment efforts globally. In Kenya, the government started ART provision in 2003 with significantly scale-up after 2006. This study aims to demonstrate changes in population-level HIV mortality in two high HIV prevalence slums in Nairobi...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-588