Financing Essential HIV Services: A New Economic Agenda

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1-6

  Vassall, Anna ^a   Remme, Michelle ^a   Watts, Charlotte ^a   Hallett, Timothy ^b   Siapka, Mariana ^a   Vickerman, Peter ^a   Terris Prestholt, Fern ^a   Haacker, Markus ^a   Heise, Lori ^a   Haines, Andy ^a   Atun, Rifat ^b,c   Piot, Peter ^a  

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

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCUMCISION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; ECONOMICS;

HEALTH SERVICES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84892835871     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001567     Document Type: Article

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