Zimbabwe's national third-line antiretroviral therapy program: Cohort description and treatment outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2015, Zimbabwe introduced third-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) through four designated treatment centers; three government clinics in Harare and Bulawayo, and Newlands Clinic (NC), operated by a private voluntary organization in Harare. We describe characteristics of patients receiving third line ART and analyzed treatment outcomes in this national programme as of 31 December 2018.

Methods

We described the population using proportions for categorical variables, and medians and interquartile ranges for continuous variables. Patients from NC, where data were more complete, were followed from the date of starting third-line ART until death, transfer, loss to follow up or 31 December 2018.

Results

A total of 209 patients had ever received third-line ART:

SUBMITTER: Chimbetete C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7051055 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature