TITLE

Women and HIV: Closing the treatment gap

PUB. DATE
March 1999
SOURCE
Patient Care;3/30/1999, Vol. 33 Issue 6, p187
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on the treatment of HIV among women. Advantages of the highly active antiretroviral therapy; Epidemiology of HIV in women; HIV and AIDS profile in women patients. INSET: How HIV/AIDS affects women..
ACCESSION #
2178145

Tags: HIV infections -- Treatment;  AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment;  WOMEN -- Diseases

 

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