Life expectancy of HIV-infected patients followed at the largest hospital in Guinea-Bissau is one-fourth of life expectancy of the background population.
Thomas Engell-SørensenAndreas RieckmannCandida MedinaDavid da Silva TéAmabelia RodriguesAne Baerent FiskerPeter AabyChristian ErikstrupSanne JespersenChristian Morberg WejseBo Langhoff Høngenull nullPublished in: Infection (2021)
LE was shown to be markedly lower among HIV-infected patients compared with the background population. While other settings have shown marked improvements in prognosis of HIV-infected patients in recent years, no improvement in Bissau was observed over time (9.8 years (95% CI 7.6-12.2) and 9.9 years (95% CI 7.6-12.1) for the periods 2005-2010 and 2014-2016, respectively).