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The need for national HIV databases
S P Layne1, T G Marr, S A Colgate
1Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico 87545.
Nature
|June 9, 1988
Abstract:
Researchers and public health officials involved in surveying and forecasting the course of the HIV epidemic require complete and unfiltered information from many sources. Governments should respond by establishing national HIV databases.
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