TY - JOUR AU - Tancredi, Mariza Vono AU - Waldman, Eliseu Alves PY - 2014 DA - 2014/11/15 TI - Survival of AIDS patients in Sao Paulo-Brazil in the pre- and post-HAART eras: a cohort study JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 599 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Brazil was the first middle-income country to provide free and universal access to AIDS treatment. Understanding the impact of this policy is key to promote ongoing improvement of current intervention strategies. The aim of this study was to compare mortality rates and survival in a cohort of AIDS patients before and after the introduction of antiretrovirals (ARV) and to investigate predictors of survival. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0599-8 DO - 10.1186/s12879-014-0599-8 ID - Tancredi2014 ER -