Assessing the HIV Care Continuum in Latin America: progress in clinical retention, cART use and viral suppression
Assessing the HIV Care Continuum in Latin America: progress in clinical retention, cART use and viral suppression
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DOI:
10.7448/ias.19.1.20636
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发表时间:
2016-04-08
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6
通讯作者:
Cahn, Pedro
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作者:
Rebeiro, Peter F.;Cesar, Carina;Cahn, Pedro
Introduction: We assessed trends in HIV Care Continuum outcomes associated with delayed disease progression and reduced transmission within a large Latin American cohort over a decade: clinical retention, combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) use and viral suppression (VS).Methods: Adults from Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology clinical cohorts in seven countries contributed data between 2003 and 2012. Retention was defined as two or more HIV care visits annually, >90 days apart. cART was defined as prescription of three or more antiretroviral agents annually. VS was defined as HIV-1 RNA