Combining prevention, treatment and care: Lessons from South Africa

AIDS

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2007, Pages

  Achmat, Zackie ^a,b,c   Simcock, Julian ^a  

^a Treatment Action Campaign ^*  (South Africa)

^b Treatment Action Campaign   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

AIDS; Costing; Economics of treatment and care; HIV; Outcomes; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LONG TERM CARE; MORALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; THAILAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS LOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447310034     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000279702.71062.52     Document Type: Article

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