Delayed Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Initiation among Hospitalized Adults in a Resource-Limited Settings: A Challenge to the Global Target of ART for 90% of HIV-Infected Individuals.
Prossie Merab IngabireFred SemitalaMoses R KamyaDamalie NakanjakoPublished in: AIDS research and treatment (2019)
Up to 75% of hospitalized HIV-infected, cART-naïve, cART-eligible patients did not initiate cART and had a 33% pre-ART mortality rate within two weeks of eligibility for cART. Hospital based strategies to hasten cART initiation during hospitalization and electronic patient tracking systems could promote active linkage to HIV treatment programs, to prevent HIV/AIDS-associated mortality in resource-limited settings.
Keyphrases
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv infected
- hiv aids
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv positive
- hiv infected patients
- end stage renal disease
- chronic kidney disease
- cardiovascular events
- newly diagnosed
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- case report
- public health
- risk factors
- gene expression
- genome wide
- type diabetes
- coronary artery disease
- combination therapy
- patient reported outcomes
- hepatitis c virus
- smoking cessation