Volume 29 - Article 39 | Pages 1039–1096
The age pattern of increases in mortality affected by HIV: Bayesian fit of the Heligman-Pollard Model to data from the Agincourt HDSS field site in rural northeast South Africa
By David Sharrow, Samuel J. Clark, Mark Collinson, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman
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