Resistance to antiretroviral therapy among patients in Uganda

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Doctors can use the same methods to monitor the occurrence of drug resistant strains of HIV in countries where the strain of virus is different than in the US. Ninety percent of the patients who took lamivudine became resistant to the drug.

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High prevalence of genotypic and phenotypic HIV-1 drug-resistant strains among patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

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Over half of 68 HIV patients in Cote d'Ivoire who were taking AIDS drugs became resistant to one or more of the drugs. Forty percent became resistant to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, 8% became resistant to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, and 6% became resistant to protease inhibitors.

Africa, HIV (Viruses), HIV

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Long-term experience providing antiretroviral drugs in a fee-for-service HIV clinic in Uganda

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The long-term experience of providing anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy, including CD4 (super +) cell count and virologic response, at St. Francis Hospital, Nsambya, Uganda is described. The results of the evaluation of this fee-for-service model highlight the constraints of keeping patients in care and the high mortality among patients accessing ARV therapy at an advanced stage of HIV disease.

Health aspects, Mortality, Risk factors, Antiviral agents, Antiretroviral agents

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