Relationship between Food Insecurity and Mortality among HIV-Positive Injection Drug Users Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in British Columbia, Canada

Aranka Anema; Keith Chan; Yalin Chen; Sheri Weiser; Julio S. G. Montaner; Robert S. Hogg

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061277

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Relationship between Food Insecurity and Mortality among HIV-Positive Injection Drug Users Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in British Columbia, Canada

Aranka Anema ,

* E-mail: aanema@cfenet.ubc.ca

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Keith Chan,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Yalin Chen,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Sheri Weiser,

Affiliations Division of HIV/AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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Julio S. G. Montaner,

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Robert S. Hogg

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of British Columbia, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Relationship between Food Insecurity and Mortality among HIV-Positive Injection Drug Users Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in British Columbia, Canada

Aranka Anema,
Keith Chan,
Yalin Chen,
Sheri Weiser,
Julio S. G. Montaner,
Robert S. Hogg

Published: May 27, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061277

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