True outcomes for patients on antiretroviral therapy who are lost to follow-up in 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...
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INTRODUCTION Patients who are lost to follow-up (LTFU) while on antiretroviral therapy (ART) pose challenges to the long-term success of ART programs. We describe the extent to which patients considered LTFU are misclassified as true disengagement from care when they are still alive on ART and explain reasons for ART discontinuation using our active tracing program to further improve ART retent...
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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: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.06.037739