- Title Pages
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- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Cover photo credits
- The Editors
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
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- Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Chapter 12 Botswana
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- Chapter 17 Uganda
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- Chapter 30 Costa Rica
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- Chapter 36 The United Kingdom
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- Index
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
- Chapter:
- (p.447) Chapter 30 Costa Rica
- Source:
- The HIV Pandemic
- Author(s):
Jessica Salas Martínez
Ignacio Salom Echeverria
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter reviews Costa Rica's response to its HIV epidemic. The country's most important achievement in dealing with the epidemic thus far has been ensuring access to affordable antiretroviral drugs for all patients who need them. It must be remembered that Costa Rica is a developing country with limited resources to spend on services, and yet it prioritized and managed this problem as though it were part of the wealthier, industrialized world and did so without any foreign financial support. What made this possible was the country's focus on developing social services for its populatin and the size of the epidemic: by the time HIV patients started receiving HAART in November 1997, there were no more than 400 patients requiring it. As soon as they appeared, antiretrovirals were purchased as generics, with optimal results in terms of CD4, viral load and health recovery.
Keywords: antiretroviral drugs, HIV epidemic, HAART, viral load, HIV infection
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- Title Pages
- Disclaimer
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Cover photo credits
- The Editors
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Chapter 12 Botswana
- Chapter 13 Ethiopia
- Chapter 14 Nigeria
- Chapter 15 Senegal
- Chapter 16 South Africa
- Chapter 17 Uganda
- Chapter 18 Cambodia
- Chapter 19 China
- Chapter 20 India
- Chapter 21 Indonesia
- Chapter 22 The Philippines
- Chapter 23 Thailand
- Chapter 24 Barbados
- Chapter 25 Cuba
- Chapter 26 Haiti
- Chapter 27 Jamaica
- Chapter 28 Argentina
- Chapter 29 Brazil
- Chapter 30 Costa Rica
- Chapter 31 France
- Chapter 32 Italy
- Chapter 33 Russian Federation
- Chapter 34 Spain
- Chapter 35 Ukraine
- Chapter 36 The United Kingdom
- Chapter 37 Canada
- Chapter 38 Mexico
- Chapter 39 The United States of America
- Index