The future of the HIV pandemic.
@article{Grassly2005TheFO, title={The future of the HIV pandemic.}, author={Nicholas C. Grassly and Geoffrey P. Garnett}, journal={Bulletin of the World Health Organization}, year={2005}, volume={83 5}, pages={ 378-82 } }
The emerging HIV epidemics in countries of Asia and Eastern Europe will contribute significantly to the future of the HIV pandemic. Forecasts of the scale of these epidemics are subject to massive uncertainty, however, mainly because of the sensitivity of predictions to small alterations in parameters that are difficult to estimate. In most of these countries, HIV is currently concentrated among vulnerable populations such as injecting drug users, sex workers and their clients, or men who have…
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