Economic evaluation of task-shifting approaches to the dispensing of anti-retroviral therapy.

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Published in Hum Resour Health on September 13, 2012

Authors

Nicola Foster1, Diane McIntyre

Author Affiliations

1: Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. Nicola.Foster@uct.ac.za.

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