How far will we need to go to reach HIV-infected people in rural South Africa?

BMC Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wilson, David P ^a,b   Blower, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SOUTH AFRICA; TRAVEL; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447333081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-5-16     Document Type: Article

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