Predictors of Retention in HIV Care Among Youth (15-24) in a Universal Test-and-Treat Setting in Rural Kenya.

J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr

*Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA †Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA ‡Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya §Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda ‖Division of HIV Prevention, Makerere University Joint AIDS Program, Kampala, Uganda ¶Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA #Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA **Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda ††Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

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