From Alma-Ata to Agincourt: primary health care in AIDS

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9642, 2008, Pages 866-868

  Coovadia, Hoosen ^a   Bland, Ruth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Africa Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 51249111724     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61373-2     Document Type: Note

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