Volume 46 - Article 18 | Pages 547–564  

To what extent were life expectancy gains in South Africa attributable to declines in HIV/AIDS mortality from 2006 to 2017? A life table analysis of age-specific mortality

By Tran Doan, Woosub Shin, Neil Mehta

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