Standards of care in the antiretroviral rollout world

Lancet

Volumn 364, Issue 9438, 2004, Pages 920-922

  Singh, Jerome A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AMERICA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 4444223748     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17040-2     Document Type: Note

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