Sustainability of task-shifting for antiretroviral treatment

The Lancet

Volumn 380, Issue 9857, 2012, Pages 1907-1908

  Naranbhai, Vivek ^a,b   Karim, Quarraisha Abdool ^a,c   Naidoo, Kogieleum ^a   Yende Zuma, Nonhlanhla ^a   Karim, Salim S Abdool ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LETTER; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKING TIME;

EID: 84870279062     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)62110-2     Document Type: Letter

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