Access to antiretroviral drugs and AIDS management in Senegal

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Authors

Alice Desclaux · Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale

Mounirou Ciss · Ministry of Health

Bernard Taverne · Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

Papa Salif Sow · Centre Hospitalier National Universitaire de Fann

Marc Egrot · Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale

Mame Awa Faye · Centre Hospitalier National Universitaire de Fann

Isabelle Lanièce

Abstract

The ISAARV programme demonstrates that HAART can be successfully prescribed in Africa. This experience has served as the basis for the creation of a national treatment programme in Senegal planned to treat 7000 patients by 2006.

Topics & Keywords

HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: AIDS

Volume 17, pp. S95-S101

DOI: 10.1097/00002030-200317003-00013

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