Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV‐1–Infected Children in Haiti
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Antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1-infected children in Haiti.
BACKGROUND Data are limited about the effectiveness of pediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low-income countries. METHODS We report the outcomes of consecutively treating 236 human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected treatment-naive children with triple ART in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, between 1 May 2003 and 30 April 2006. RESULTS Kaplan-Meier survival analysis at follow-up dem...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1086/514823