Open AccessThe burden of HIV
Author(s) -
Katrina F Ortblad,
Rafael Lozano,
Christopher J L Murray
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
aids
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.195
H-Index - 216
eISSN - 1473-5571
pISSN - 0269-9370
DOI - 10.1097/qad.0b013e328362ba67
Subject(s) - medicine , burden of disease , disease burden , environmental health , global health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , disability adjusted life year , years of potential life lost , developing country , demography , quality adjusted life year , public health , life expectancy , population , cost effectiveness , economic growth , virology , risk analysis (engineering) , nursing , sociology , economics
To evaluate the global and country-level burden of HIV/AIDS relative to 291 other causes of disease burden from 1980 to 2010 using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) as the vehicle for exploration.