The right to health and the nevirapine case in South Africa

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 750-754

  Annas, George J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DRUG SAFETY; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; PATIENT RIGHT; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUTH AFRICA;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CHILD ADVOCACY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEVIRAPINE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0037456438     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMlim022737     Document Type: Review

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