P6.057 Decreasing the Proportion of Patients Lost to Follow-Up at an Out-Patient HIV Clinic in Eastern Uganda
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Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Among Patients Lost-To-Follow Up: A Case of An Hiv Clinic in a Private-For-Profit Health Facility in Kampala, Uganda.
Methods: A health facility based cross-sectional study was conducted in an HIV clinic in Kampala district. Medical records of 550 HIV positive attending the HIV clinic from April 2005 to April 2012 in a private-for-profit health facility were analyzed. Per ART dataset, 147 HIV positive patients were identified as being lost-to-follow up to HIV care among which 94 were accessible for interviews....
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عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1368-4973,1472-3263
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051184.1210