Open AccessRecording of HIV Viral Loads and Viral Suppression in South African Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Treatment: A Multicentre Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Tameryn Pillay,
Morna Cornell,
Matthew P. Fox,
Jonathan Euvrard,
Geoffrey Fatti,
Karl-Günter Technau,
Nosisa Sipambo,
Hans Prozesky,
Brian Eley,
Frank Tanser,
Johnson Lf
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
antiviral therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.747
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 2040-2058
pISSN - 1359-6535
DOI - 10.3851/imp3371
Subject(s) - viral load , medicine , logistic regression , cohort , immunology , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
Viral suppression in patients on antiretroviral treatment (ART) is critical to reducing HIV transmission and HIV-related mortality. Although many studies have evaluated factors associated with viral suppression, few have assessed the extent to which missing viral load data may bias results.