Open AccessIncreased Mortality With Delayed and Missed Switch to Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa
Author(s) -
Helen Bell-Gorrod,
Richard Court,
Michael Schomaker,
Gary Maartens,
Richard A. Murphy
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000002313
Subject(s) - interquartile range , medicine , hazard ratio , viral load , confidence interval , marginal structural model , reverse transcriptase inhibitor , antiretroviral therapy , surgery , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology
After failure of first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the public sector, delayed or missed second-line ART switch is linked with poor outcomes in patients with advanced HIV.