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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Original Articles

Nevirapine-related adverse events among children switched from efavirenz to nevirapine as compared to children who were started on nevirapine-based antiretroviral therapy directly

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Pages 655-659 | Received 04 Jun 2013, Accepted 10 Nov 2014, Published online: 17 Dec 2014

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