Prevalence Of Undernutrition And Associated Factors Among Adults Receiving First-Line Antiretroviral Treatment In Public Health Facilities Of Arba Minch Town, Southern Ethiopia.
Bilcha OumerNegussie Boti SidemoSultan HussenTeklemariam Gultie KetemaPublished in: HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.) (2019)
This study shows that the prevalence of undernutrition was high among adult patients on first-line antiretroviral therapy. Therefore, this finding shows the need to implement nutrition programs to improve the nutritional status of adults living with HIV in the study area. The interventions should emphasise those patients who use the substance, who are in advanced WHO clinical stage and have active tuberculosis. Besides, emphasis should be given for patients to undertake cotrimoxazole preventive therapy and to regularly follow their CD4 count.
Keyphrases
- public health
- physical activity
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv aids
- hiv infected
- human immunodeficiency virus
- risk factors
- end stage renal disease
- hiv positive
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- chronic kidney disease
- south africa
- emergency department
- patient reported outcomes
- men who have sex with men
- adverse drug
- electronic health record
- drug induced