Coming home to die? The association between migration and mortality in rural Tanzania before and after ART scale-up

Coming home to die? The association between migration and mortality in rural Tanzania before and after ART scale-up

Background: Prior to the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), demographic surveillance cohort studies showed higher mortality among migrants than residents in many rural areas. Objectives: This study quantifies the overall and AIDS-specific mortality between migrants and residents prior to ART,...

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Main Authors: Francis Levira, Jim Todd, Honorati Masanja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2014-05-01
Series:Global Health Action
Subjects:
residents
internal migration
external migration
rural-urban migrants
mortality
HIV
ART
ARV
Tanzania
Online Access:http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/download/22956/pdf_1

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