Better antiretroviral therapy outcomes at primary healthcare facilities: an evaluation of three tiers of ART services in four South African provinces

G Fatti, A Grimwood, P Bock - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background There are conflicting reports of antiretroviral therapy (ART) effectiveness
comparisons between primary healthcare (PHC) facilities and hospitals in low-income …

[PDF][PDF] Outcomes of antiretroviral therapy in a northern Indian urban clinic

SK Sharma, S Dhooria, KT Prasad… - Bulletin of the World …, 2010 - SciELO Public Health
PROBLEM: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes have been successful in several
countries. However, whether they would succeed as part of a national programme in a …

Outcomes of antiretroviral treatment program in Ethiopia: retention of patients in care is a major challenge and varies across health facilities

Y Assefa, A Kiflie, D Tesfaye, DH Mariam… - BMC health services …, 2011 - Springer
Background Many resource-limited countries are scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART)
towards universal access. However, there are few studies which evaluated outcomes of ART …

Determinants of mortality and nondeath losses from an antiretroviral treatment service in South Africa: implications for program evaluation

SD Lawn, L Myer, G Harling, C Orrell… - Clinical infectious …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Background. The scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) services in resource-limited
settings requires a programmatic model to deliver care to large numbers of people …

[PDF][PDF] Antiretroviral therapy and early mortality in South Africa

A Boulle, P Bock, M Osler, K Cohen… - Bulletin of the World …, 2008 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To describe province-wide outcomes and temporal trends of the Western Cape
Province antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme 5 years since inception, and to …

ART treatment costs and retention in care in Kenya: a cohort study in three rural outpatient clinics

BA Larson, M Bii, S Henly‐Thomas… - Journal of the …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction After almost 10 years of PEPFAR funding for antiretroviral therapy (ART)
treatment programmes in Kenya, little is known about the cost of care provided to HIV …

Health service delivery models for the provision of antiretroviral therapy in sub‐Saharan Africa: a systematic review

JV Lazarus, K Safreed‐Harmon… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives In response to the lack of evidence‐based guidance for how to continue scaling
up antiretroviral therapy (ART) in ways that make optimal use of limited resources, to assess …

Efficacy of antiretroviral therapy programs in resource-poor settings: a meta-analysis of the published literature

LC Ivers, D Kendrick, K Doucette - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background. Despite the advent of effective combination antiretroviral drug therapy (ART) for
the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, many doubt the feasibility of …

The high cost of HIV-positive inpatient care at an urban hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa

LC Long, MP Fox, C Sauls, D Evans, I Sanne… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background While most HIV care is provided on an outpatient basis, hospitals continue to
treat serious HIV-related admissions, which is relatively resource-intensive and expensive …

The outcomes and outpatient costs of different models of antiretroviral treatment delivery in South Africa

S Rosen, L Long, I Sanne - Tropical medicine & international …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Estimate the average outpatient cost per patient in care and responding to
treatment 1 year after initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) under different models of …