Convergence of Mortality Rates among Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa and North America
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1 Ministry of Health of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, 2 Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America, 4 Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 5 HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Division, Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda, 6 Center for Global Cancer Medicine, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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