The "AMA-Brazil" cooperative project: a nation-wide assessment of the clinical and epidemiological profile of AIDS-related deaths in Brazil in the antiretroviral treatment era Projeto cooperativo AMA-Brasil: um estudo nacional do perfil clinico e epidemiológico dos óbitos relacionados à AIDS na era da terapia antirretroviral

• Main Authors: Maria Amelia de Sousa Mascena Veras (Author), Manoel C. A. Ribeiro (Author), Leda Fátima Jamal (Author), Willi McFarland (Author), Francisco Inácio Bastos (Author), Karina Braga Ribeiro (Author), Rita Barradas Barata (Author), José Cassio de Moraes (Author), Arthur L. Reingold (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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The objective of this study was to assess the profile of AIDS-related deaths in the post antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale up period in Brazil. A case-control study was conducted including a nationally probabilistic sample of AIDS deaths and living controls. Data were abstracted from medical record...