Is the HIV burden in India being overestimated?
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Is the HIV burden in India being overestimated?
BACKGROUND The HIV burden estimate for India has a very wide plausibility range. A recent population-based study in a south Indian district demonstrated that the official method used in India to estimate HIV burden in the population, which directly extrapolates annual sentinel surveillance data from large public sector antenatal and sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics, led to a 2-3 tim...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-308