Patient retention in antiretroviral therapy programs up to three years on treatment in sub‐Saharan Africa, 2007–2009: systematic review

MP Fox, S Rosen - Tropical medicine & international health, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To estimate the proportion of all‐cause adult patient attrition from antiretroviral
therapy (ART) programs in service delivery settings in sub‐Saharan Africa through 36 …

Mortality of patients lost to follow-up in antiretroviral treatment programmes in resource-limited settings: systematic review and meta-analysis

MWG Brinkhof, M Pujades-Rodriguez, M Egger - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background The retention of patients in antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes is an
important issue in resource-limited settings. Loss to follow up can be substantial, but it is …

Prevalence and distribution of non-AIDS causes of death among HIV-infected individuals receiving antiretroviral therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Farahani, H Mulinder, A Farahani… - … journal of STD & …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The advent of antiretroviral therapy has significantly improved AIDS-related morbidity and
mortality. Yet, among people living with HIV, deaths due to non-AIDS-defining illnesses have …

Retention in care among HIV-infected patients in resource-limited settings: emerging insights and new directions

EH Geng, D Nash, A Kambugu, Y Zhang… - Current Hiv/aids …, 2010 - Springer
In resource-limited settings—where a massive scale up of HIV services has occurred in the
last 5 years—both understanding the extent of and improving retention in care presents …

Survival in MS: a randomized cohort study 21 years after the start of the pivotal IFNβ-1b trial

DS Goodin, AT Reder, GC Ebers, G Cutter… - Neurology, 2012 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To examine the effects of interferon beta (IFNβ)-1b on all-cause mortality over 21
years in the cohort of 372 patients who participated in the pivotal randomized clinical trial …

Five-year outcomes of the China national free antiretroviral treatment program

F Zhang, Z Dou, Y Ma, Y Zhao, Z Liu… - Annals of internal …, 2009 - acpjournals.org
Background: China's National Free Antiretroviral Treatment Program began in 2002 and, by
August 2008, included more than 52 000 patients. Objective: To report 5-year outcomes on …

Understanding reasons for and outcomes of patients lost to follow-up in antiretroviral therapy programs in Africa through a sampling-based approach

EH Geng, DR Bangsberg, N Musinguzi… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Losses to follow-up after initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) are common in
Africa and are a considerable obstacle to understanding the effectiveness of nascent …

Seven-year experience of a primary care antiretroviral treatment programme in Khayelitsha, South Africa

A Boulle, G Van Cutsem, K Hilderbrand, C Cragg… - Aids, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: We report on outcomes after 7 years of a community-based antiretroviral therapy
(ART) programme in Khayelitsha, South Africa, with death registry linkages to correct for …

Why are antiretroviral treatment patients lost to follow‐up? A qualitative study from South Africa

CM Miller, M Ketlhapile… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To better understand the reasons why patients default from antiretroviral
treatment (ART) programmes to help design interventions that improve treatment retention …

[PDF][PDF] Influence of gender on loss to follow-up in a large HIV treatment programme in western Kenya

V Ochieng-Ooko, D Ochieng, JE Sidle… - Bulletin of the World …, 2010 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of loss to follow-up in a treatment programme for
people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Kenya and to investigate …