Adolescent HIV—Cause for Concern in Southern Africa
Open Access
- 2 February 2010
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 7 (2) , e1000227
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000227
Abstract
Glenda Gray discusses the implications of a new study that found that almost half of all adolescents hospitalized in Zimbabwe were HIV-infected.Keywords
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