Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in people living with HIV in Thailand.

ABSTRACT: HIV testing is the first step to making people living with HIV (PLHIV) aware of their status. Thailand is among the countries where antiretroviral therapy is initiated in PLHIV at the lowest CD4 cell counts. We aimed to quantify and characterize missed opportunity (MO) for earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in PLHIV in Thailand. The medical records of adults who were newly diagnosed with HIV between 2019 and 2020 at the two tertiary hospitals in Thailand were reviewed. A hospital visit due to an HIV clinical indicator disease but an HIV test was not performed was considered an MO for HIV testing. Of 422 newly diagnosed PLHIV, 60 persons (14.2%) presented with at least one MO, and 20 persons (33.3%) had more than one MO. In PLHIV with MO, the median (interquartile range) time between the fi

SUBMITTER: Phuphuakrat A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021504 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature