Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients
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Summary
In some antiretroviral drug distribution programmes, free drugs are provided only, or preferentially, to patients who are treatment-naive, it is argued that such a restricted policy is highly problematic.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2005-09-13
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 12
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W16293432
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:26292571
Keywords
Medicine, Family medicine, Antiretroviral treatment, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Private sector
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