Brazil and access to HIV/AIDS drugs: A question of human rights and public health

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1110-1116

  Galvão, Jane ^a  

^a International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; EFAVIRENZ; LEPROSTATIC AGENT; LOPINAVIR; NELFINAVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BRAZIL; CHOLERA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG COST; FILARIASIS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEISHMANIASIS; LEPROSY; MALARIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; TRACHOMA;

HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 21144444421     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.044313     Document Type: Review

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