The estimated magnitude of AIDS in Brazil: a delay correction applied to cases with lost dates

The number of HIV-infected people is an important measure of the magnitude of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil and allows for comparison with epidemic patterns in other countries. This quantity can be estimated from the number of reported AIDS cases, which in turn needs to be corrected for the distributi...

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Main Authors: Maria Tereza S. Barbosa, Claudio J. Struchiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Series:Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Subjects:
hiv
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2002000100028&lng=en&tlng=en