Antiretroviral drugs obtained without prescription for treatment of HIV/AIDS in Pakistan: Patient mismanagement as a serious threat for drug resistance [1]

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 378-

  Shah, Sharaf Ali ^a   Altaf, Arshad ^b   Khanani, Rafique ^c   Vermund, Sten H ^d  

^a DOW UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b Canada Pakistan HIV AIDS Surveillance Project   (Pakistan)

^c Infection Control Society Pakistan   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG MISUSE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LETTER; PAKISTAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARMACIST; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; THERAPEUTIC ERROR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEDICATION ERRORS; PAKISTAN;

EID: 21844475641     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. National AIDS Control Program. National study of reproductive tract and sexually transmitted infections: strategy for proposed research design. Ministry of Health Government of Pakistan, May 2002.
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