A Surprising Prevention Success: Why Did the HIV Epidemic Decline in Zimbabwe?
Open Access
- 8 February 2011
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 8 (2), e1000414
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000414
Abstract
Daniel Halperin and colleagues examine reasons for the remarkable decline in HIV in Zimbabwe, in the context of severe social, political, and economic disruption.This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
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