The added value of a CD4 count to identify patients eligible for highly active antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive adults in Cambodia
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The sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 2003 World Health Organization (WHO) criteria was determined to start antiretroviral treatment based on clinical criteria or based on combination of clinical symptoms and the total lymphocyte count. The data suggest that, in settings with limited access to CD4 count testing, it might be useful to target this test to patients in WHO stage 3 whose staging is based on weight loss alone, to avoid unnecessary treatment.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2006
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Trends in AIDS and mortality in HIV-infected subjects with hemophilia from 1985 to 2003: The competing risks for death between AIDS and liver disease
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A study of the trends in progression to AIDS, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality over calendar periods with different exposure to highly active antiretroviral therapy in a cohort of hemophiliacs in Spain is illustrated, taking into account the competing risks of the causes of death. Major reduction in AIDS and death rates were observed from 1997 to 2003 in hemophiliacs as compared to the increase in liver disease death rates.
Publication Name: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Subject: Health
ISSN: 1525-4135
Year: 2006
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