Decline in mortality in children with HIV in the UK and Ireland: HIV positive adolescents urgently need dedicated services

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K P Prime et al. BMJ. 2004.

. 2004 Feb 28;328(7438):524; author reply 524.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7438.524.

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Decline in mortality, AIDS, and hospital admissions in perinatally HIV-1 infected children in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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