Cost-effectiveness of tenofovir instead of zidovudine for use in first-line antiretroviral therapy in settings without virological monitoring

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  von Wyl, Viktor ^a,b   Cambiano, Valentina ^a   Jordan, Michael R ^c,d   Bertagnolio, Silvia ^c   Miners, Alec ^e   Pillay, Deenan ^a   Lundgren, Jens ^f   Phillips, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CSS Institute for Empirical Health Economics   (Switzerland)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^f University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; NONNUCLEOSIDE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITOR; STAVUDINE; TENOFOVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; MONITORING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TREATMENT DURATION; VIROLOGICAL MONITORING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADENINE; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPHOSPHONATES; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZIDOVUDINE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 84864657774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042834     Document Type: Article

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