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AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Research Open Access The effect of AIDS defining conditions on immunological recovery among patients initiating antiretroviral therapy at Joint Clinical Research Centre, Uganda 1 1 1 1 Brian K Kigozi* , Samwel Sumba , Peter Mudyope , Betty Namuddu , 1 1 2 3 Joan Kalyango , Charles Karamagi , Mathew Odere , Elly Katabira , 2 2 Peter Mugyenyi and Francis Ssali Address: 1Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, P.O. BOX 7072, Kampala, Uganda, 2Joint Clinical Research Centre, P.O. BOX 10005, Kampala, Uganda and 3Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, P.O. BOX 7072, Kampala, Uganda Email: Brian K Kigozi* - bkigozi@med.mak.ac.ug; Samwel Sumba - samyamjam@; Peter Mudyope - mudyopek@; Betty Namuddu - kitattab@; Joan Kalyango - nakayaga2001@; Charles Karamagi - karamagi2000@; Mathew Odere - modere@jcrc.co.ug; Elly Katabira - katabira@; Peter Mugyenyi - pmugyenyi@jcrc.co.ug; Francis Ssali - franSsali@jcrc.co.ug * Corresponding author Published: 24 July 2009 Received: 9 February 2009 Accepted: 24 July 2009 AIDS Research and Therapy 2009, 6:17 doi:10.1186/1742-6405-6-17 This article is available from: /content/6/1/17 © 2009 Kigozi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed