A collision of pandemics: HIV and COVID-19

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¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2192, South Africa. Electronic address: charles.feldman@wits.ac.za.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2192, South Africa.

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Charles Feldman et al. Lancet HIV. 2022 Jul.

. 2022 Jul;9(7):e453-e454.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(22)00132-1. Epub 2022 May 10.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2192, South Africa. Electronic address: charles.feldman@wits.ac.za.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2192, South Africa.

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Clinical features of, and risk factors for, severe or fatal COVID-19 among people living with HIV admitted to hospital: analysis of data from the WHO Global Clinical Platform of COVID-19.
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