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Comment
. 2010 Feb 2;7(2):e1000227.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000227.

Adolescent HIV--cause for concern in Southern Africa

Glenda E Gray  1
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Adolescent HIV--cause for concern in Southern Africa

Glenda E Gray. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Glenda Gray discusses the implications of a new study that found that almost half of all adolescents hospitalized in Zimbabwe were HIV-infected.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares that she was on the Tibotec Preventing Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) advisory board in 2009, for which she was paid, but PMTCT and specific antiretroviral drugs are not discussed in this article. Dr. Gray reports also receiving grant support from GlaxoSmithKline for investigating the prevalence of 3TC resistance in the PETRA and being on an expert panel on HIV for Nestlé Nutrition Institute Africa that assessed interventions to prevent postnatal transmission of HIV.

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