Improving on effective antiretroviral therapy: how good will a cure have to be?

Kenneth A Freedberg^{1

2}, Paul E Sax³

Affiliations

¹ Medical Practice Evaluation Center and Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Editorial

Kenneth A Freedberg et al. J Med Ethics. 2017 Feb.

. 2017 Feb;43(2):71-73.

doi: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103907. Epub 2016 Dec 5.

Kenneth A Freedberg^{1

2}, Paul E Sax³

¹ Medical Practice Evaluation Center and Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: HIV Infection and AIDS.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None.

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