Highly active antiretroviral therapy in Brazil: the challenge of universal access in a context of social inequality La terapia antirretrovírica de gran actividad en el Brasil: el reto del acceso para todos en un contexto de desigualdad social

• Main Authors: Mariana A. Hacker, Maya L. Petersen, Melissa Enriquez, Francisco I. Bastos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2004
• Subjects: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; antiretroviral therapy; health services; mortality; socioeconomic factors; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Sida
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/78b5cac91e264a8bb5354581864c7ffd

OBJECTIVE: To investigate trends in AIDS mortality and incidence in Brazil over the period of 1984 to 2000 and to assess the impact of the introduction of universal access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the country in 1996. METHODS: Data from the Brazilian disease notification sy...