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01-12-2010 | Poster presentation
Sex matters: retrospective data collection on the date of commencement of ART for HIV-positive women and men in the German KompNet cohort (1991-2009)
Authors:
I Krznaric, A Wienbreyer, A Zoufaly, P Kreckel, S Esser, T Harrer, K Jansen, C Michalik, S Hertling
Published in:
Journal of the International AIDS Society
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Special Issue 4/2010
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Excerpt
In Germany the majority of people living with HIV/AIDS are males and little is known about the characteristics and epidemiology of female HIV patients. The German KompNetKohort is a large, national retro- and prospective, multicenter, HIV-specific cohort, that documents HIV-positive patients since 1991. One important question we wanted to answer is in how much these two populations differ and whether a gender specific treatment approach is needed. …