Determinants of immunological recovery following HAART among severely immunosuppressed patients at enrolment to care in Northern Ethiopia: a retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to identify determinants of immunological recovery following highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among severely immunosuppressed patients at enrolment to care in Northern Ethiopia.

Methods

A retrospective study.

Setting

The study was done in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia.

Participants

The study was done among severely immunosuppressed (<200 CD4 cells/mm³) individuals at initial enrolment to care and whose samples were sent for viral load determination from April 2015 to March 2019 in Tigray Health Research Institute.

Main outcomes

The main outcome variable was immunological recovery, modelled using binary logistic regression.

Results

Among the 9687 patients with severe immunosuppression at enrolmen

SUBMITTER: Desta AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7462238 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature