Modelling the economic benefits of tuberculosis preventive therapy for people with HIV: The example of Zambia

AIDS

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 919-925

  Foster, Susan ^a   Godfrey Faussett, Peter ^a,b   Porter, John ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Costs; Economics; HIV AIDS; Preventive therapy; Tuberculosis; Zambia

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MODEL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; ZAMBIA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EASTERN AFRICA; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; EVALUATION; HIV INFECTIONS; INFECTIONS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RESEARCH REPORT; TREATMENT--COST; TUBERCULOSIS--PREVENTION AND CONTROL; VIRAL DISEASES; ZAMBIA;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MODELS, ECONOMIC; TUBERCULOSIS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 0030996557     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199707000-00012     Document Type: Article

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