AEGiS-APPJ: Tuberculosis and HIV Infection: Utilization of Public Programs to Fund Treatment

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Tuberculosis and HIV Infection: Utilization of Public Programs to Fund Treatment

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 12, no. 4 (Winter 1997): 122-37
R.J. Buchanan

The purpose of this article is to present the approaches that state and local health departments have developed and implemented in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., to combat TB. Given the financial pressures confronting health departments in their efforts to control TB, this research also presents how public health departments are utilizing a number of different public programs to pay for needed TB-related care.
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