Evidence for scaling up HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for incorporating health system constraints

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Jan Hontelez and colleagues argue that the cost-effectiveness studies of HIV treatment scale-up need to include health system constraints to be more informative.

Vyšlo v časopise: Evidence for scaling up HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for incorporating health system constraints. PLoS Med 14(2): e32767. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002240
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Jan Hontelez and colleagues argue that the cost-effectiveness studies of HIV treatment scale-up need to include health system constraints to be more informative.

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