The journey to antiretroviral therapy in Karnataka, India: who was lost on the road?
Abstract
One important operational challenge facing antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes in low- and middle-income countries is the loss to follow-up between diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and initiation of ART. This is a major obstacle to achieving universal access to ART. This study from Karnataka, India, tried to measure such losses by determining the number of HIV-positive individuals diagnosed, the number of them reaching ART centres, the number initiated on ART and the reasons for non-initiation of ART.Publisher
International AIDS SocietyPubMed ID
23985346Language
enISSN
1758-2652Collections
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