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Advanced HIV disease and engagement in care among patients on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa: results from a multi-state model

Patten GE, Euvrard J, Anderegg N, Boulle AM, Arendse KD,  et al.
2022-11-24 • AIDS
2022-11-24 • AIDS
OBJECTIVE
Despite improved access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people with HIV (PWH), HIV continues to contribute considerably to morbidity and mortality. Increasingly, advanc...
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Paradoxical tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome after early initiation of antiretroviral therapy in a randomized clinical trial

Laureillard D, Marcy O, Madec Y, Chea S, Chan S,  et al.
2013-10-23 • AIDS
2013-10-23 • AIDS
To analyze cases of paradoxical tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) in the CAMbodian Early versus Late Introduction of Antiretrovirals (CAMELIA)...
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Performance of cepheid GeneXpert HIV-1 viral load plasma assay to accurately detect treatment failure: a clinical meta-analysis

Sacks JA, Fong Y, Gonzalez MP, Andreotti M, Baliga S,  et al.
2019-10-01 • AIDS
2019-10-01 • AIDS
BACKGROUND
Coverage of viral load testing remains low with only half of the patients in need having adequate access. Alternative technologies to high throughput centralized machines ...
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Temporal changes in programme outcomes among adult patients initiating antiretroviral therapy across South Africa, 2002-2007

Cornell M, Grimsrud A, Fairall L, Fox MP, van Cutsem G,  et al.
2010-09-10 • AIDS
2010-09-10 • AIDS
OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the temporal impact of the rapid scale-up of large antiretroviral therapy (ART) services on programme outcomes. We describe patient outcomes [mortality, ...
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Extremely Low Hepatitis C prevalence among HIV co-infected individuals in 4 countries in sub-Saharan Africa

Loarec A, Carnimeo V, Molfino L, Kizito W, Muyindike WR,  et al.
2018-11-16 • AIDS
2018-11-16 • AIDS
: A multicentric, retrospective case-series analysis (facility-based) in five sites across Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda screened HIV-positive adults for hepatitis C virus (HCV) ...
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Highly active antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

Tassie JM, Szumilin E, Calmy A, Goemaere E
2003-09-05 • AIDS
2003-09-05 • AIDS
We describe the short-term results of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in seven projects in low and middle income countries. A total of 743 adults were included, and clinical...
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Weight gain at 3 months of antiretroviral therapy is strongly associated with survival: evidence from two developing countries

Madec Y, Szumilin E, Genevier C, Ferradini LLF, Balkan S,  et al.
2009-04-27 • AIDS
2009-04-27 • AIDS
BACKGROUND
In developing countries, access to laboratory tests remains limited, and the use of simple tools such as weight to monitor HIV-infected patients treated with antiretrovira...
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Simplifying switch to second-line antiretroviral therapy in sub Saharan Africa: predicted effect of using a single viral load to define efavirenz-based first-line failure

Shroufi A, van Cutsem G, Cambiano V, Bansi-Matharu L, Duncan K,  et al.
2019-08-01 • AIDS
2019-08-01 • AIDS
BACKGROUND
Many individuals failing first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa never initiate second-line ART or do so after significant delay. For people on ART w...
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Commentary

Ensuring sustainable antiretroviral provision during economic crises

Mills EJ, Ford NP, Nabiryo C, Cooper C, Montaner JSG
2010-01-28 • AIDS
2010-01-28 • AIDS
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Highly active antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings: the experience of Medecins Sans Frontieres

Tassie JM, Szumilin E, Calmy A, Goemaere E
2003-09-01 • AIDS
2003-09-01 • AIDS
We describe the short-term results of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in seven projects in low and middle income countries. A total of 743 adults were included, and clinical...
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Research

Risk Factors for High Early Mortality in Patients on Antiretroviral Treatment in a Rural District of Malawi

Zachariah R, Fitzgerald M, Massaquoi M, Pasulani O, Arnould L,  et al.
2006-11-28 • AIDS
2006-11-28 • AIDS
OBJECTIVES: Among adults started on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in a rural district hospital (a) to determine the cumulative proportion of deaths that occur within 3 and 6 months of s...
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CD4+ cell count at antiretroviral therapy initiation and economic restoration in rural Uganda

Venkataramani AS, Thirumurthy H, Haberer JE, Boum Y II, Siedner MJ,  et al.
2014-01-08 • AIDS
2014-01-08 • AIDS
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with better economic outcomes.

DESIGN
Prospective cohort study of HIV-pos...
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Treatment outcomes of patients on Second-line Antiretroviral Therapy in resource-limited settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Ajose O, Mookerjee S, Mills EJ, Boulle AM, Ford NP
2012-05-15 • AIDS
2012-05-15 • AIDS
A growing proportion of patients on antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings have switched to second-line regimens. We carried out a systematic review in order to summarize re...
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Switching to second-line antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings: comparison of programmes with and without viral load monitoring

Keiser O, Tweya H, Boulle AM, Braitstein P, Schechter M,  et al.
2009-09-10 • AIDS
2009-09-10 • AIDS
BACKGROUND
In high-income countries, viral load is routinely measured to detect failure of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and guide switching to second-line ART. Viral load monitoring ...
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Seven-year experience of a primary care antiretroviral treatment programme in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Boulle AM, van Cutsem G, Hilderbrand K, Cragg C, Abrahams M,  et al.
2010-02-20 • AIDS
2010-02-20 • AIDS
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 mort...
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Commentary

HIV and Ebola virus: two jumped species but not two of a kind

Calmy A, Goemaere E, van Cutsem G
2015-08-24 • AIDS
2015-08-24 • AIDS
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Performance of Cepheid Xpert HIV-1 viral load plasma assay to accurately detect treatment failure

Sacks JA, Fong Y, Gonzalez MP, Andreotti M, Baliga S,  et al.
2019-10-01 • AIDS
2019-10-01 • AIDS
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Outcomes after two years of providing antiretroviral treatment in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Coetzee D, Hildebrand K, Boulle AM, Maartens G, Louis F,  et al.
2004-04-09 • AIDS
2004-04-09 • AIDS
BACKGROUND
A community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme was established in 2001 in a South African township to explore the operational issues involved in providing ART in...
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Promoting adherence to antiretroviral therapy: the experience from a primary care setting in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Coetzee D, Boulle AM, Hildebrand K, Asselman V, van Cutsem G,  et al.
2004-06-01 • AIDS
2004-06-01 • AIDS
OBJECTIVE
To describe the approach used to promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and to present the outcomes in the first primary care public sector ART project in South ...
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In resource-limited settings good early outcomes can be achieved in children using adult fixed-dose combination antiretroviral therapy

O'Brien DP, Sauvageot D, Zachariah R, Humblet P
2006-10-03 • AIDS
2006-10-03 • AIDS
OBJECTIVES
To (a) determine early treatment outcomes and (b) assess safety in children treated with adult fixed-dose combination (FDC) antiretroviral tablets.

SETTING
S...