Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients
Open Access
- 13 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 2 (10) , e276
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020276
Abstract
In some antiretroviral drug distribution programmes, free drugs are provided only, or preferentially, to patients who are treatment-naive. Colebunders and colleagues argue that such a restricted policy is highly problematic.Keywords
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