HIV/AIDS Prognosis
Researchers from University of Copenhagen, Department of Infectious Diseases discuss findings in HIV/AIDS prognosis
Published in Health Risk Factor Week, April 24th, 2007
Investigators publish new data in the report "Predictors of mortality in a cohort of HIV-1-infected adults in rural Africa. CD4 cell count and plasma HIV RNA level are used to monitor HIV-infected patients in high-income countries, but the applicability in an African context with frequent concomitant infections has only been studied sparsely. Moreover, alternative inexpensive markers are needed in the attempts to roll out antiretroviral treatment in the region," researchers in Denmark report.
"We explored the prognostic strengths of classic and alternative progression markers in this study set in rural Zimbabwe. We followed 196 treatment-naive HIV-1-infected patients...
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