Early active follow-up of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) who are lost to follow-up: the ‘Back-to-Care’ project in Lilongwe, Malawi
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True outcomes for patients on antiretroviral therapy who are "lost to follow-up" in Malawi.
PROBLEM In many resource-poor countries that are scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART), 5-25% of patients are reported as "lost to follow-up". This figure is 9% in Malawi. There is no published information about the true outcome status of these patients. APPROACH In four facilities in northern Malawi, ART registers and master cards were used to identify patients who had not attended the fac...
متن کاملOutcomes and associated risk factors of patients traced after being lost to follow-up from antiretroviral treatment in Lilongwe, Malawi
BACKGROUND Loss to follow-up is a major challenge of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Our objective was to a) determine true outcomes of patients lost to follow-up (LTFU) and b) identify risk factors associated with successful tracing and deaths of patients LTFU from ART in a large public sector clinic in Lilongwe, Malawi. METHODS Patients who were more than 2 we...
متن کاملOutcomes and risk factors of patients traced after lost to follow-up from antiretroviral treatment in Lilongwe, Malawi
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عنوان ژورنال: Tropical Medicine & International Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1360-2276
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02509.x