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. 2024 May 7;149(19):1471-1473.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.065836. Epub 2024 May 6.

Will HIV Break the Heart of Africans?

Roger J Bedimo  1   2 , Fiona Strasserking  2 , Pablo Tebas  3
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Will HIV Break the Heart of Africans?

Roger J Bedimo et al. Circulation. .
No abstract available

Keywords: HIV; Sub-Saharan Africa; atherosclerotic cardiovascular sisease.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosures R.J.B. reported receiving research grants/grants pending awarded to his institution from Merck & Co, Inc, and serving on the scientific advisory board for Merck & Co, Inc, ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, Inc, Shionogi, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. P.T. has received compensation for consultation services from Merck, Gilead, and ViiV Healthcare. Additionally, the University of Pennsylvania has been granted financial support in the form of research grants for conducting HIV-related studies from the National Institutes of Health, Merck, Gilead, ViiV Healthcare, Sangamo, Takeda and Janssen Pharmaceuticals. The other author reports no conflicts.

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