High mortality among people living with HIV and AIDS accessing care at hospitals in Ghana. Do they report too late?
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Introduction The reported high level of mortality among patients both on clinical care and on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in Ghana in recent years has been blamed on an advance presentation of AIDS cases due to delay by patients accessing care at Hospitals. The study hypothesized that HIV and AIDS patients report at the ART clinics with very low CD4 lymphocyte count and determined the CD4 lymphocytes count of HIV positive patient at first presentation in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
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