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Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these?
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is essential for maximising individual treatment outcomes and preventing the development of drug resistance. It is, however, frequently compromised due to predictable, but adverse, scenarios in the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. This paper looks at...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20356383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-6-4 |
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author | Veenstra, Nina Whiteside, Alan Lalloo, David Gibbs, Andrew |
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description | Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is essential for maximising individual treatment outcomes and preventing the development of drug resistance. It is, however, frequently compromised due to predictable, but adverse, scenarios in the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. This paper looks at lessons from three specific crises in southern Africa: the 2008 floods in Mozambique, the ongoing political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, and the 2007 public sector strike in South Africa. It considers how these crises impacted on the delivery of antiretroviral therapy and looks at some of the strategies employed to mitigate any adverse effects. Based on this it makes recommendations for keeping patients on treatment and limiting the development of drug resistance where treatment interruptions are inevitable. |
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spelling | pubmed-28598182010-04-27 Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these? Veenstra, Nina Whiteside, Alan Lalloo, David Gibbs, Andrew Global Health Review Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is essential for maximising individual treatment outcomes and preventing the development of drug resistance. It is, however, frequently compromised due to predictable, but adverse, scenarios in the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS. This paper looks at lessons from three specific crises in southern Africa: the 2008 floods in Mozambique, the ongoing political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, and the 2007 public sector strike in South Africa. It considers how these crises impacted on the delivery of antiretroviral therapy and looks at some of the strategies employed to mitigate any adverse effects. Based on this it makes recommendations for keeping patients on treatment and limiting the development of drug resistance where treatment interruptions are inevitable. BioMed Central 2010-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2859818/ /pubmed/20356383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-6-4 Text en Copyright ©2010 Veenstra et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Veenstra, Nina Whiteside, Alan Lalloo, David Gibbs, Andrew Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these? |
title | Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these? |
title_full | Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these? |
title_fullStr | Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these? |
title_full_unstemmed | Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these? |
title_short | Unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern Africa: how should we be managing these? |
title_sort | unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruptions in southern africa: how should we be managing these? |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20356383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1744-8603-6-4 |
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