Adolescent HIV treatment in South Africa's national HIV programme: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The number of South African adolescents receiving HIV care and treatment in South Africa is growing. By use of routinely collected laboratory data from South Africa's National HIV Programme, we aimed to quantify the numbers of adolescents accessing HIV care and treatment over time, characterise the role of perinatal infection in these trends, and estimate proportions of adolescents seeking HIV care and antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africa's public sector.

Methods

We did a retrospective, descriptive cohort study of children and adolescents aged 1-19 years accessing care in South Africa's public sector HIV treatment programme from 2005 to 2016 with a CD4 cell count or viral load recorded in South Africa's National Health Laboratory Service database. We estim

SUBMITTER: Maskew M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7119220 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature