The emergence of HIV transmitted resistance in Botswana: "when will the WHO detection threshold be exceeded?".

The Botswana antiretroviral program began in 2002 and currently treats 42,000 patients, with a goal of treating 85,000 by 2009. The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun to implement a surveillance system for detecting transmitted resistance that exceeds a threshold of 5%. However, the WHO has n...

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Main Authors: Raffaele Vardavas, Sally Blower
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1764713?pdf=render