[Nutritional status of children aged 6 to 59 months with HIV but not on ARVs in Lubumbashi].

Pan Afr Med J

Université de Lubumbashi, Faculté de Médecine, Département de Sciences Biomédicales, Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo ; Université de Lubumbashi, Faculté de Médecine, Département de Gynécologie Obstétrique, Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo.

Published: September 2015

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