Implications of adopting new WHO guidelines for antiretroviral therapy initiation in Ethiopia
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Implications of adopting new WHO guidelines for antiretroviral therapy initiation in Ethiopia.
OBJECTIVE To assess the implications of implementing the World Health Organization (WHO) 2010 guidelines for antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation in adults and adolescents with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, which recommend initiating ART at a CD4+ T lymphocyte (CD4+) threshold of ≤ 350 cells/mm(3) instead of ≤ 200 cells/mm(3), which was the earlier threshold. METHODS Betwee...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.11.089599