Does early ART in sub-Saharan Africa decrease mortality?
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Adjusting Mortality for Loss to Follow-Up: Analysis of Five ART Programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND Evaluation of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes in sub-Saharan Africa is difficult because many patients are lost to follow-up. Outcomes in these patients are generally unknown but studies tracing patients have shown mortality to be high. We adjusted programme-level mortality in the first year of antiretroviral treatment (ART) for excess mortality in patients lost to follow-u...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet HIV
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2352-3018
DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3018(15)00130-7