A novel Markov model projecting costs and outcomes of providing antiretroviral therapy to public patients in private practices versus public clinics in South Africa.

Providing private antiretroviral therapy (ART) care for public sector patients could increase access to ART in low- and middle-income countries. We compared the costs and outcomes of a private-care and a public-care ART program in South Africa.A novel Markov model was developed from the public-care...

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Main Authors: Rory Leisegang, Gary Maartens, Michael Hislop, John Sargent, Ernest Darkoh, Susan Cleary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3566152?pdf=render