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  Drugs in development: new promise [ACRIA Update, vol 12]

  AIDS Community Research Initiative of America, 2003

  This issue of ACRIA Update focuses on antiretrovirals that are being developed to deal with problems of new formulations of old drugs, second generation drugs in existing classes, drugs like entry inhibitors that target HIV at different points in its life cycle, and drugs that are in very early stages of development.The paper demonstrates that we may never hear of some of these drugs again; the
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  The cost of treating HIV/AIDS with ARVs in South Africa: Who knows? Who cares?

  International AIDS Economics Network, 2002

  This paper reports on a survey conducted of completed studies and research in progress produced by public, private and non-government institutions that have estimated and documented the cost of treatment of HIV/AIDS with ARVs in South Africa.
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  Expanding access to Antiretroviral Therapies in Chile: economic and financial issues for patients and the health system

  International AIDS Economics Network, 2003

  The main goal of this paper is to describe the Chilean experience in improving the accessibility to ART, in order to identify the problems more clearly and to assess the consequences both for patients and their caregivers and for the health system.
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  Pre-exposure chemoprophylaxis (PREP) as an HIV prevention strategy

  International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, 2003

  This paper finds that chemoprophylaxis may be a prevention strategy for the sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).The paper demonstrates that evidence suggests that condom use has waned with the availability of antiretroviral medication, at least in some resource-rich settings. Barrier methods of HIV prevention have inherent problems, and the potential for failure.
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  Demystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings

  Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, MSF, 2003

  This paper uses the example of a poor township 30 kilometres outside Cape Town to find out if antiretroviral therapy is possible in severely resource-constrained environments and to discover the best ways to deliver these drugs.Zidovudine (AZT), first became available in Khayelitsha township’s two maternity wards in early 1999, and the programme has subsequently become one of the continent’s bi
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  Saving mothers, saving families: the MTCT-plus initiative (Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral Treatment)

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This paper assesses the degree of success of the MTCT-Plus Initiative in providing lifelong care and treatment for HIV/AIDS to families in resource-limited settings.
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  Scaling up antiretroviral therapy: experience in Uganda: case study (Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral treatment)

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This case study is part of a series entitled Perspectives and Practice in Antiretroviral treatment, which aims to analyse how governments, civil society organisations, private corporations and others are successfully providing antiretroviral treatment and care to people with HIV/AIDS, even in the most resource-constrained settings.
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  A public health approach to antiretroviral treatment: overcoming constraints. (Perspectives and practice in antiretroviral treatment)

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This publication reviews the experiences of ARV programmes already underway in countries with very severe HIV epidemics but with constrained resources, as in most of Africa and part of the Caribbean.
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  Food and nutrition implications of antiretroviral therapy in resource limited settings

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2004

  This technical note from the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project provides information and guidance about the food and nutrition implications of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource limited settings.
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  Accelerating action against AIDS in Africa

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This report, presented at ICASA 2003 in Nairobi, assesses current global commitments to addressing HIV/AIDS. It states that, despite the fact that the pandemic has recently reached the top of the African and international agenda, resources are still nowhere near sufficient.

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