Riccardo Mayer/ShutterstockThere’s no evidence of an improvement in the capacity of HIV treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa to promptly identify treatment failure and to switch patients to second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to a review of 36 observational studies. On average, CD4 counts have already fallen below 200 when treatment failure is recognised and patients wait a further 17 months before changing treatment. Outcomes did not improve between 2009 to 2020, Kerlly Bernabé and colleagues report in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
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