Expanding HAART treatment to all currently eligible individuals under the 2008 IAS-USA Guidelines in British Columbia, Canada.

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Published in PLoS One on June 07, 2010

Authors

Viviane D Lima1, Robert S Hogg, Julio S G Montaner

Author Affiliations

1: British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. vlima@cfenet.ubc.ca

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