Quality of care initiatives in South Africa: What lessons for policy?
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Combining prevention, treatment and care: lessons from South Africa.
Over one million people in sub-Saharan Africa now access HIV treatment, and as the prognosis of life expectancy on antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves, the central question that arises for governments, civil society and the private sector must be: how will we pay for the healthcare costs?This paper critically evaluates the need to provide effective treatment, prevention and care for HIV over ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin Amades
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1257-0222,2102-5975
DOI: 10.4000/amades.1183