Scaling up ART treatment capacity: Lessons learned from South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 69-73

  Ojikutu, Bisola ^a   Makadzange, A Tariro ^b   Gaolathe, Tendani ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; NEVIRAPINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BOTSWANA; EPIDEMIC; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRATEGIC PLANNING; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 41049095337     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-008-0012-0     Document Type: Review

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