Need for timely paediatric HIV treatment within primary health care in rural South Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Cooke, Graham S ^a,b   Little, Kirsty E ^c   Bland, Ruth M ^a,d   Thulare, Hilary ^a   Newell, Marie Louise ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEDIATRICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL RATE; ADOLESCENT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL HEALTH CARE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEDIATRICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 70349632587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007101     Document Type: Article

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