Will adoption of the 2010 WHO ART guidelines for HIV-infected TB patients increase the demand for ART services in India?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Kumar, Ajay M V ^a,b   Gupta, Devesh ^a   Rewari, B B ^a   Bachani, Damodar ^a   Mohammed, Suresh ^a   Sharma, Vartika ^a   Lal, Kumaraswamy ^a   Reddy, H R Raveendra ^b   Naik, Balaji ^b   Prasad, Rita ^b   Yaqoob, Mohammed ^b   Deepak, K G ^b   Shastri, Suresh ^a   Satyanarayana, Srinath ^a,c   David Harries, Anthony ^d,e   Chauhan, Lakhbir Singh ^a   Dewan, Puneet ^b  

^a GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease The Union   (India)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFAVIRENZ; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; STAVUDINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIXED INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPUTUM SMEAR; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; STATISTICS; TIME; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052530721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024297     Document Type: Article

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