HIV Screening and Access to Care : Exploring the Impact of Policies on Access to and Provision of HIV Care /
"With the widespread use of highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART), HIV has become a chronic, rather than a fatal, disease. But for their treatment to succeed, patients require uninterrupted care from a health care provider and uninterrupted access to anti-HIV medications. The IOM iden...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
©2011.
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Colección: | Online access: National Academy of Sciences National Academies Press.
Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "With the widespread use of highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART), HIV has become a chronic, rather than a fatal, disease. But for their treatment to succeed, patients require uninterrupted care from a health care provider and uninterrupted access to anti-HIV medications. The IOM identifies federal, state, and private health insurance policies that inhibit HIV-positive individuals from initiating or continuing their care."--Publisher's description. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 96 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-73). |
ISBN: | 9780309164207 0309164206 1283081571 9781283081573 0309212057 9780309212052 9786613081575 6613081574 |