Risk factors, barriers and facilitators for linkage to antiretroviral therapy care: a systematic review

D Govindasamy, N Ford, K Kranzer - Aids, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To characterize patient and programmatic factors associated with retention in care
during the pre-antiretroviral therapy (ART) period and linkage to ART care. Design …

Loss to programme between HIV diagnosis and initiation of antiretroviral therapy in sub‐Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta‐analysis

C Mugglin, J Estill, G Wandeler… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To assess the proportion of patients lost to programme (died, lost to follow‐up,
transferred out) between HIV diagnosis and start of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub …

Prognosis of patients with HIV-1 infection starting antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: a collaborative analysis of scale-up programmes

M May, A Boulle, S Phiri, E Messou, L Myer, R Wood… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Background Prognostic models have been developed for patients infected with HIV-1 who
start combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) in high-income countries, but not for patients in …

High rates of retention and viral suppression in the scale‐up of antiretroviral therapy adherence clubs in Cape Town, South Africa

PR Tsondai, LS Wilkinson, A Grimsrud… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Increasingly, there is a need for health authority scale up of successfully piloted
differentiated models of antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery. However, there is a paucity of …

Male sex and the risk of mortality among individuals enrolled in antiretroviral therapy programs in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

E Druyts, M Dybul, S Kanters, J Nachega, J Birungi… - Aids, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Background: HIV/AIDS has historically had a sex and gender-focused approach to
prevention and care. Some evidence suggests that HIV-positive men have worse treatment …

Linkage to HIV care and antiretroviral therapy in Cape Town, South Africa

K Kranzer, J Zeinecker, P Ginsberg, C Orrell… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been scaled-up rapidly in Africa. Programme
reports typically focus on loss to follow-up and mortality among patients receiving ART …

The social determinants of multimorbidity in South Africa

O Alaba, L Chola - International journal for equity in health, 2013 - Springer
Introduction Multimorbidity is a growing concern worldwide, with approximately 1 in 4 adults
affected. Most of the evidence on multimorbidity, its prevalence and effects, comes from high …

Retention in HIV care for individuals not yet eligible for antiretroviral therapy: rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

RJ Lessells, PC Mutevedzi, GS Cooke… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To determine retention in HIV care for individuals not yet eligible for antiretroviral
therapy (ART) and to explore factors associated with retention in a rural public health HIV …

Treatment interruption in a primary care antiretroviral therapy program in South Africa: cohort analysis of trends and risk factors

K Kranzer, JJ Lewis, N Ford, J Zeinecker… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To investigate antiretroviral treatment (ART) interruption in a long-term treatment
cohort in South Africa. Methods: All adults accessing ART between 2004 and 2009 were …

Risk factors for loss to follow-up from antiretroviral therapy programmes in low-income and middle-income countries

EM Frijters, LE Hermans, AMJ Wensing, WLJM Devillé… - Aids, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Methods: PubMed, Embase, Psycinfo and Cochrane were searched for studies that report
on potential risk factors for LTFU in adults who initiated ART in LMICs. Meta-analysis was …