Scaling up access to antiretroviral treatment in southern Africa: Who will do the job?

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9428, 2004, Pages 103-107

  Kober, Katharina ^a   Van Damme, Wim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALAWI; MOZAMBIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALE UP; SOUTH AFRICA; SWAZILAND; TREATMENT PLANNING; AFRICA; DRUG UTILIZATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS;

AFRICA, SOUTHERN; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; DRUG UTILIZATION; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 3042781178     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16597-5     Document Type: Note

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