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HIV/AIDS
Research on HIV/AIDS published by scientists at Johns Hopkins University
April 21st, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "In 2007, there were 33.2 million people around the world living with HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS/WHO, 2007). In May 2003, the U. S. President announced a global program, known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), to address this epidemic." "We seek to estimate patient mortality in PEPFAR in an effort to monitor and evaluate this program. This effort, however, is hampered by loss to follow-up that occurs at very high rates. As a consequence, standard survival data and analysis on observed nondropout data are generally biased, and provide no objective evidence to correct the potential bias. In this article,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-04-21)
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