A study in Uganda has found that admission to hospital due to advanced HIV is predominantly attributable to treatment failure and lack of TB preventative treatment, not late HIV diagnosis.
Three-quarters of those admitted to hospital with AIDS-defining illnesses had already been diagnosed with HIV and two-thirds of those diagnosed with HIV had started antiretroviral treatment. The majority had been on treatment for more than two years.
The findings, published in the journal PLoS Global Health, are reported by Dr Lillian Tugume and colleagues at Makerere University, Kampala.
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Source : Aidsmap
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