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Analysis of compliance to antiretroviral treatment among patients with HIV/AIDS

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objective: To analyze the compliance to antiretroviral therapy among HIV/AIDS patients. Method: 99 HIV-positive volunteers undergoing treatment responded to a semi-structured sociodemographic interview and to a questionnaire that assessed compliance to ...
Hélia Carla de Souza, Márcio Rabelo Mota, Amanda Ribeiro Alves, Filipe Dinato Lima, Sandro Nobre Chaves, Renata Aparecida Elias Dantas, Samuel Barbosa Mezavila Abdelmur, Ana Paula Vaz da Silva Mota   +7 more
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Social and clinical attributes of patients who restart antiretroviral therapy in central and Copperbelt provinces, Zambia: a retrospective longitudinal study

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background About 30 % of the patients initiated on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia default treatment. Some of these patients later restart treatment; however, the characteristics of these patients have not been well described and documented.
Chama Mulubwa, Oliver Mweemba, Patrick Katayamoyo, Hikabasa Halwindi   +3 more
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Opportunities for improving the efficiency of paediatric HIV treatment programmes [PDF]

, 2015
Objectives: To conduct two economic analyses addressing whether to: routinely monitor HIV-infected children on antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinically or with laboratory tests; continue or stop cotrimoxazole prophylaxis when children become stabilized on
Bakeera-Kitaka, S, Bwakura-Dangarembizi, M, Gibb, DM, Kekitinwa, A, Mabugu, T, Mugyenyi, P, Munderi, P, Musiime, V, Nahirya-Ntege, P, Nathoo, KJ, Revill, PA, Sculpher, MJ, Walker, AS, Walker, S   +13 more
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Integration in oncogenes plays only a minor role in determining the in vivo distribution of HIV integration sites before or during suppressive antiretroviral therapy

, 2021
John M. Coffin, Michael J. Bale, Daria Wells, Shuang Guo, Brian T. Luke, Jennifer M. Zerbato, Michele D. Sobolewski, Twan Sia, Wei Shao, Xiaolin Wu, Frank Maldarelli, Mary F. Kearney, John W. Mellors, Stephen H. Hughes   +13 more
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The CARMA Study: Early Infant Antiretroviral Therapy—Timing Impacts on Total HIV-1 DNA Quantitation 12 Years Later [PDF]

, 2020
Caroline Foster, Sara Domínguez‐Rodríguez, Alfredo Tagarro, Triantafylia Gkouleli, Judith Heaney, Sarah A. Watters, Alasdair Bamford, Katy Fidler, Marisa Navarro, Anita De Rossi, Paolo Palma, Eleni Nastouli, Paolo Rossi, Carlo Giaquinto, Pablo Rojo   +14 more
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The association of methadone use with physical function and frailty among persons who inject drugs

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Aims Persons who inject drugs (PWID) experience a high burden of early‐onset frailty, primarily due to multifactorial causes such as infections (human immunodeficiency virus [HIV], hepatitis C virus [HCV]), substance use, and polypharmacy.
Grace L. Kulik, Hsing‐Yu Hsu, Jacqueline Rudolph, Yutong Jiang, Kristine M. Erlandson, Damani A. Piggott, Shruti Mehta, Jeremy D. Walston, Gregory Kirk, Todd T. Brown, Jing Sun   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Magnitude of adverse drug reaction and associated factors among HIV-infected adults on antiretroviral therapy in Hiwot Fana specialized university hospital, eastern Ethiopia

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: human immunodefiecency virus infected patients did not adhere correctly to their Antiretroviral Therapy because it?s adverse effects.
Fitsum Weldegebreal, Habtamu Mitiku, Zelalem Teklemariam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Initiation of antiretroviral therapy

Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS, 2014
With the widespread availability of antiretroviral therapy, there is a dramatic decline in HIV related morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. Further, the current antiretroviral drug combinations are safer and the availability of newer monitoring assays and guidelines has vastly improved the patient management.
Pandhi, Deepika, Ailawadi, Pallavi
openaire   +3 more sources

Benefit of viral load testing for confirmation of immunological failure in HIV patients treated in rural Malawi. [PDF]

, 2011
Objective  Viral load testing is used in the HIV programme of Chiradzulu, Malawi, to confirm the diagnosis of immunological failure to prevent unnecessary switching to second-line therapy.
Badri, Bisson, Calmy, Ekouevi, Ferradini, Kantor, Keiser, Lebon, Mee, Moore, Murri, Reynolds, van Oosterhout, World Health Organization, World Health Organization   +14 more
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Impact of antiretroviral therapy on renal function among HIV-infected Tanzanian adults: a retrospective cohort study.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundData regarding the outcomes of HIV-infected adults with baseline renal dysfunction who start antiretroviral therapy are conflicting.MethodsWe followed up a previously-published cohort of HIV-infected adult outpatients in northwest Tanzania who ...
Bonaventura C T Mpondo, Samuel E Kalluvya, Robert N Peck, Rodrick Kabangila, Benson R Kidenya, Lucheri Ephraim, Daniel W Fitzgerald, Jennifer A Downs   +7 more
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