Assessment of HIV viral load monitoring in remote settings in Vietnam - comparing people who inject drugs to the other patients.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Increasing access to viral load (VL) monitoring is essential to fight HIV epidemics. In remote settings in Vietnam, using dried blood spot (DBS) sampling for specimen collection could improve the situation. Here, people who inject drugs (PWID) represent many newly antiretroviral therapy (ART)-initiated patients. The goals of this evaluation were to evaluate if access to VL monitoring and the rate of virological failure differed between PWID and non-PWID.

Methods

Prospective cohort study of patients newly initiated on ART in remote settings in Vietnam. DBS coverage at 6, 12 and 24 months of ART was investigated. Factors associated with DBS coverage were identified through logistic regression, as were factors associated with virological failure (VL ≥1,000 copies/m

SUBMITTER: Lefrancois LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942987 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature