Monitoring of antiretroviral therapy and mortality in HIV programmes in Malawi, South Africa and Zambia: mathematical modelling study.

Monitoring of antiretroviral therapy and mortality in HIV programmes in Malawi, South Africa and Zambia: mathematical modelling study.

Mortality in patients starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) is higher in Malawi and Zambia than in South Africa. We examined whether different monitoring of ART (viral load [VL] in South Africa and CD4 count in Malawi and Zambia) could explain this mortality difference.Mathematical modelling study b...

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Main Authors: Janne Estill, Matthias Egger, Leigh F Johnson, Thomas Gsponer, Gilles Wandeler, Mary-Ann Davies, Andrew Boulle, Robin Wood, Daniela Garone, Jeffrey S A Stringer, Timothy B Hallett, Olivia Keiser, IeDEA Southern Africa Collaboration
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3585414?pdf=render

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