The estimated magnitude of AIDS in Brazil: a delay correction applied to cases with lost dates Estimativa da magnitude da AIDS no Brasil: uma correção de atraso aplicada aos casos com data perdida

• Autores principales: Maria Tereza S. Barbosa (Autor), Claudio J. Struchiner (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: article
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The number of HIV-infected people is an important measure of the magnitude of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil and allows for comparison with epidemic patterns in other countries. This quantity can be estimated from the number of reported AIDS cases, which in turn needs to be corrected for the distributi...