Adherence to HAART: Africans take medicines more faithfully than North Americans [1]

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0390-0391

  Attaran, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; AFRICA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIC; MANAGEMENT; NORTH AMERICA;

AFRICA; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 33847611179     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040083     Document Type: Letter

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