A comparison of self-report and antiretroviral detection to inform estimates of antiretroviral therapy coverage, viral load suppression and HIV incidence in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

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2017

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Huerga, Helena
Shiferie, Fisseha
Grebe, Eduard
Giuliani, Ruggero
Farhat, Jihane Ben
Van Cutsem, Gilles
Cohen, Karen
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BMC Infectious Diseases

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https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2740-y
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Division of Clinical Pharmacology
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Accurately identifying individuals who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important to determine ART coverage and proportion on ART who are virally suppressed. ART is also included in recent infection testing algorithms used to estimate incidence. We compared estimates of ART coverage, viral load suppression rates and HIV incidence using ART self-report and detection of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and we identified factors associated with discordance between the methods.
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ART
ARV detection
Antiretroviral coverage
HIV
HIV incidence
Self-report
Viral suppression

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Huerga, H., Shiferie, F., Grebe, E., Giuliani, R., Farhat, J.B., Van Cutsem, G. & Cohen, K. 2017. A comparison of self-report and antiretroviral detection to inform estimates of antiretroviral therapy coverage, viral load suppression and HIV incidence in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. BMC Infectious Diseases. 17(1):174 - 177. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/34288

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