Monday, December 1, 2008

Closing the knowledge-implementation gap in HIV treatment

The Lancet Student Archive - Closing the knowledge-implementation gap in HIV treatment:
"...JW Lee, former director general of WHO, coined the term ‘know-do gap’ for the distance between proven effective interventions and their implementation. The above are vivid examples of this ‘knowledge-implementation gap’; while our vast knowledge of HIV therapy marches on to the metronome of scientific discovery, implementation of simple, proven, effective therapies-just getting basic generic HAART drugs to those in need-lags behind, especially in the developing world [...]"

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