Volume 27 - Article 26 | Pages 743–774  

Estimates of Age-Specific Reductions in HIV Prevalence in Uganda: Bayesian Melding Estimation and Probabilistic Population Forecast with an HIV-enabled Cohort Component Projection Model

By Samuel J. Clark, Jason Thomas, Le Bao

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