Equity in utilization of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected people in South Africa: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

About half a million people in South Africa are deprived of antiretroviral therapy (ART), and there is little systematic knowledge on who they are - e.g. by severity of disease, sex, or socio-economic status (SES). We performed a systematic review to determine the current quantitative evidence-base on equity in utilization of ART among HIV-infected people in South Africa.

Method

We conducted a literature search based on the Cochrane guidelines. A study was included if it compared for different groups of HIV infected people (by sex, age, severity of disease, area of living, SES, marital status, ethnicity, religion and/or sexual orientation (i.e. equity criteria)) the number initiating/adhering to ART with the number who did not. We considered ART utilization ineq

SUBMITTER: Tromp N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4448289 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature