Mortality and its determinants among patients infected with HIV-1 on antiretroviral therapy in a referral centre in Yaounde, Cameroon: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Mortality has declined in people with HIV infection, subsequent to the improved access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). We assessed the incidence and determinants of mortality among patients with HIV-1 infection who were started on ART in a referral treatment centre for HIV infection in Yaounde, Cameroon.

Design

Cohort study with baseline assessment between 2007 and 2008, and follow-up during 5 years until June 2012.

Setting

The accredited HIV treatment centre of the Yaounde Jamot Hospital in the capital city of Cameroon.

Participants

People living with HIV infection who started ART between 2007 and 2008 at the study centre.

Outcome measures

All-cause mortality over time; accelerated failure time models used to relate baseline characteristics

SUBMITTER: Poka-Mayap V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3710986 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature