Open AccessIs it possible to reduce AIDS deaths without reinforcing socioeconomic inequalities in health?
Author(s) -
José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes,
Eliseu Alves Waldman,
Carme Borrell
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyi022
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , medicine , demography , public health , population , environmental health , inequality , estimation , gerontology , mathematical analysis , nursing , mathematics , sociology , management , economics
The wide use of highly active antiretroviral therapy has led to an impressive improvement in AIDS survival after the mid-1990s in cities and countries with a high access to these medications. Notwithstanding its beneficial overall effect, antiretroviral therapy was also reported as a factor for the increase in socioeconomic inequalities in health, because AIDS patients have unequal access and adherence to these medications.
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