DART points the way for HIV treatment programmes

The Lancet

Volumn 375, Issue 9709, 2010, Pages 96-98

  Phillips, Andrew ^a   van Oosterhout, Joep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SURVIVAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VIRUS LOAD;

EID: 73449130029     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)62103-6     Document Type: Note

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