Erratum: Scaling-Up access to antiretroviral therapy for children: A cohort study evaluating care and treatment at mobile and hospital-affiliated HIV clinics in rural Zambia (PLoS ONE (2014) 9:8 e104884 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104884);Scaling-up access to antiretroviral therapy for children: A cohort study evaluating care and treatment at mobile and hospital-affiliated HIV clinics in rural Zambia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Van Dijk, Janneke H ^a,b   Moss, William J ^c   Hamangaba, Francis ^a   Munsanje, Bornface ^a   Sutcliffe, Catherine G ^c  

^a Macha Hospital   (Zambia)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY WEIGHT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE PERCENTAGE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; ZAMBIA; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HIV INFECTIONS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILE HEALTH UNITS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84905993478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112994     Document Type: Erratum

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