Authors:Davies, Mary-AnnDate:2010Excellent adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is necessary if HIV-infected children are to experience the dramatically improved outcomes that this treatment affords. However, there is very limited data on adherence to antiretroviral ...Read more
Authors:Davies, Mary-Ann; Boulle, Andrew; Fakir, Tanzeem; Nuttall, James; Eley, BrianDate:2008BACKGROUND:Antiretroviral therapy (ART) dramatically improves outcomes for children in Africa; however excellent adherence is required for treatment success. This study describes the utility of different measures of adherence in detecting ...Read morecb
Authors:Osler, MegDate:2007Severe symptomatic hyperlactataemia and lactic acidosis (SHLA) are life-threatening events that are occurring at increasing incidence levels in South Africa. Globally, the rise in SHLA cases is closely correlated to the increased accessibility ...Read more
Authors:Njuguna, Christine WanjikuDate:2013Treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is longer and associated with more significant side-effects than drug susceptible TB. Second line injectable therapy using kanamycin, amikacin or capreomycin is associated with irreversible ...Read more
Authors:Hellström, LizeDate:2005The study aimed to explore the causes of death, the costs involved in these deaths as well as the places where these deaths occurred. As all patients had access to ART once registered with the disease management company, AfA, most patients ...Read more
Authors:Cleary, Susan; McIntyre, Di; Boulle, AndrewDate:2006BACKGROUND:Given the size of the HIV epidemic in South Africa and other developing countries, scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART) represents one of the key public health challenges of the next decade. Appropriate priority setting and ...Read morecb
Authors:Ford, Nathan; Darder, Marta; Spelman, Tim; Maclean, Emi; Mills, Edward; Boulle, AndrewDate:2010Objective Previous studies have demonstrated a cross-sectional relationship between antiretroviral adherence and HIV virological suppression. We assessed the predictive value of baseline adherence in determining long-term virological failure. ...Read morecb
Authors:Boulle, AndrewDate:2009Antiretroviral therapy (ART) first became available in the public sector in the Western Cape Province in Khayelitsha in 2001. This thesis describes the effectiveness of ART in Khayelitsha and the Province, following adult patients for up to ...Read more
Authors:Allen, ElizabethDate:2008[Background and rationale] Malaria accounts for a large public health burden in Mozambique and a treatment policy with effective anti-malarials is a key component of their malaria control programme. Artemisinin-based combination therapies ...Read more
