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. 2007 Feb;4(2):e83.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040083.

Adherence to HAART: Africans take medicines more faithfully than North Americans

Amir Attaran

Adherence to HAART: Africans take medicines more faithfully than North Americans

Amir Attaran. PLoS Med. 2007 Feb.
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Competing Interests: In 2003, the World Bank commissioned AA to write about AIDS drug procurement and resistance. In 2001, he coauthored an editorial for the Washington Post calling for Andrew Natsios' resignation. AA was the Academic Editor on the study in PLoS Medicine commented on in this letter [4], and collaborated with several of the study authors on a second systematic review of adherence to HIV medicines [3].

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