AIDS Therapy

Antiretroviral therapy cut hospital days for HIV/AIDS patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, June 3rd, 2002

Data from a nationwide network of HIV clinics - published in the May issue of Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes - suggest that current highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has reduced the amount of time HIV-positive patients spend in the hospital.

The report by The HIV Research Network includes data on 5255 patients treated at nine American HIV primary and specialty care clinics during 1999. Seventeen percent of the patients were hospitalized sometime during the year, for an average of 297 hospital days per 100 patients.

For patients receiving HAART, hospital time averaged 265 days per 100 patients, compared with 320...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-06-03)

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