What is the role of CD4 count in a large public health antiretroviral programme?

Affiliations

¹ Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Right to Care and Clinical HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Michelle Moorhouse et al. South Afr J HIV Med. 2016.

. 2016 Feb 12;17(1):446.

doi: 10.4102/sajhivmed.v17i1.446. eCollection 2016.

¹ Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Right to Care and Clinical HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationships which may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.

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