Infant feeding and prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

نویسنده

  • H Coovadia
چکیده

Let us give credit to those pioneering funders and practitioners who have risked sacrificing the comfort of armchair critic status in favour of the partly successful but promising models upon which we can base our future successes. A decade after the early acrimonious engagements we now find clinicians on both sides of the table representing IPAs and managed care organisations — talks are still tough, but no longer as naïve, arrogant or petulant.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde

دوره 94 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004