ART in low-resource settings: How to do more with less

The Lancet

Volumn 376, Issue 9739, 2010, Pages 396-398

  Koole, Olivier ^a   Colebunders, Robert ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 77955586644     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61020-3     Document Type: Note

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