HIV treatment roll-out has had only a modest impact on mortality in Lusaka, Zambia

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The scale-up of
antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes in Lusaka, Zambia, has been
accompanied by only modest reductions in the city’s mortality rates,
investigators report in the Bulletin of
the World Health Organization. A series of cross-sectional household
surveys conducted between 2004 and 2011 showed no significant reduction in the
mortality rate. The authors admit this finding