Scale-ups, scarcity, and selections: The experience of doctors in South Africa

AIDS

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2007, Pages

  Bayer, Ronald ^a   Oppenheimer, Gerald M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antiretroviral drugs; Ethics; Physicians; Rationing; South Africa; Treatment access

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MORALITY; PHYSICIAN; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIANS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 37349111828     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000298102.94731.34     Document Type: Article

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