Introduction. L’efficacité du traitement antirétroviral dans la restauration immunitaire dépend fortement du stade de l’infection et du taux de lymphocyte TCD4 au moment de l’introduction du traitement. Nous avons évalué le taux de lymphocytes TCD4 à la découverte de la séropositivité au V...
Introduction : Les maladies opportunistes surviennent chez les personnes vivant avec le VIH (PvVIH) dans les situations de prise en charge tardive. En absence de traitements efficace, la multiplication du virus est inévitable et les personnes concernées sont confrontées à une baisse de leur immunité...
Background: Moringa oleifera Lam. is known to be of high nutritional and medicinal importance and has been demonstrated to possess a variety of biological activities.
Objective: This study investigated the beneficial role of M. oleifera (moringa) supplementation in HIV positive subjects receiving antiret...
Background: Point-of-care CD4 tests at HIV diagnosis could improve linkage to care in resource-limited settings. Our objective is to evaluate the clinical and economic impact of point-of-care CD4 tests compared to laboratory-based tests in Mozambique.
Methods and findings: We use a validated model of HIV...
Objectives: To compare HIV care quality provided by non-physician clinicians (NPC) and physicians.
Design: Retrospective cohort study assessing the relationship between provider cadre and HIV care quality among non-pregnant adult patients initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the national HIV care ...
Background: Loss to follow-up of HIV-positive patients before initiation of antiretroviral therapy can exceed 50% in low-income settings and is a challenge to the scale-up of treatment. We implemented point-of-care counting of CD4 cells in Mozambique and assessed the effect on loss to follow-up before im...
