Public-health and individual approaches to antiretroviral therapy: township South Africa and Switzerland compared

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2008

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16145
 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050148
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Authors
Keiser, Olivia
Orrell, Catherine
Egger, Matthias
Wood, Robin
Brinkhof, Martin W G
Furrer, Hansjakob
vCutsem, Gilles
Ledergerber, Bruno
Boulle, Andrew
(IeDEA-SA), for the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) and the International Epidemiologic Databases
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PLOS Medicince

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http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine
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Public Library of Science

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department
Desmond Tutu HIV Centre
Faculty
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Abstract
Comparing HIV treatment in Switzerland, where drug selection is individualized, and South Africa, where a programmatic approach is used, Matthias Egger and colleagues find similar virologic outcomes over two years.
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Keywords
Highly-active antiretroviral therapy
HIV
Viral load
South Africa
Antiretrovirals
Death rates
AIDS
Antiretroviral therapy

Reference:

Keiser, O., Orrell, C., Egger, M., Wood, R., Brinkhof, M. W., Furrer, H., ... & International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS in Southern Africa (IeDEA-SA). (2008). Public-health and individual approaches to antiretroviral therapy: township South Africa and Switzerland compared. PLoS Med, 5(7), e148. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050148

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