Recent Findings from A.J. Herbst and Co-Authors Highlight Research in HIV/AIDS

2012 MAR 23 -- According to the authors of recent research published in the journal Population Health Metrics, "The advent of the HIV pandemic and the more recent prevention and therapeutic interventions have resulted in extensive and rapid changes in cause-specific mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, and there is demand for timely and accurate cause-specific mortality data to steer public health responses and to evaluate the outcome of interventions. The objective of this study is to describe cause-specific mortality trends based on verbal autopsies conducted on all deaths in a rural population in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, over a 10-year period...

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