Act local, think global: how the Malawi experience of scaling up antiretroviral treatment has informed global policy

• Main Authors: Anthony D. Harries (Author), Nathan Ford (Author), Andreas Jahn (Author), Erik J. Schouten (Author), Edwin Libamba (Author), Frank Chimbwandira (Author), Dermot Maher (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract The scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Malawi was based on a public health approach adapted to its resource-poor setting, with principles and practices borrowed from the successful tuberculosis control framework. From 2004 to 2015, the number of new patients started on ART increase...