Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients: Experience in Uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward

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.

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Autores principales: Colebunders, Robert, Kamya, Moses, Semitala, Fred, Castelnuovo, Barbara, Katabira, Elly, McAdam, Keith
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1201692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16156695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020276
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author Colebunders, Robert
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Semitala, Fred
Castelnuovo, Barbara
Katabira, Elly
McAdam, Keith
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spelling pubmed-12016922005-09-14 Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients: Experience in Uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward Colebunders, Robert Kamya, Moses Semitala, Fred Castelnuovo, Barbara Katabira, Elly McAdam, Keith PLoS Med Essay 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. Public Library of Science 2005-10 2005-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC1201692/ /pubmed/16156695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020276 Text en Copyright: © 2005 Colebunders et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
spellingShingle Essay
Colebunders, Robert
Kamya, Moses
Semitala, Fred
Castelnuovo, Barbara
Katabira, Elly
McAdam, Keith
Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients: Experience in Uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward
title Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients: Experience in Uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward
title_full Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients: Experience in Uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward
title_fullStr Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients: Experience in Uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward
title_full_unstemmed Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients: Experience in Uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward
title_short Free Antiretrovirals Must Not Be Restricted Only to Treatment-Naive Patients: Experience in Uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward
title_sort free antiretrovirals must not be restricted only to treatment-naive patients: experience in uganda suggests that restricting access is not the way forward
topic Essay
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1201692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16156695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020276
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