Lung function in perinatally HIV-infected adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Cape Town, South Africa

Background: Lung disease is a common complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in children and adolescents. As antiretroviral programmes have strengthened and HIV diagnosed earlier, survival of perinatally HIV-infected children has improved. Therefore, an increasing number of peri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Githinji, Leah Nyawira
Other Authors: Zar, Heather
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Health Sciences 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31387