Open AccessAdaptive Viral Load Monitoring Frequency to Facilitate Differentiated Care: A Modeling Study From Rakai, Uganda
Author(s) -
Victor Ssempijja,
Martha Nason,
Gertrude Nakigozi,
Anthony Ndyanabo,
Ron Gray,
Maria J. Wawer,
Larry W. Chang,
Erin E. Gabriel,
Thomas C. Quinn,
David Serwadda,
Steven J. Reynolds
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciz880
Subject(s) - viral load , medicine , weibull distribution , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , statistics , mathematics
After scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), routine annual viral load monitoring has been adopted by most countries, but reduced frequency of viral load monitoring may offer cost savings in resource-limited settings. We investigated if viral load monitoring frequency could be reduced while maintaining detection of treatment failure.