True outcomes for patients on antiretroviral therapy who are "lost to follow-up" in Malawi

PROBLEM: In many resource-poor countries that are scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART), 5-25% of patients are reported as "lost to follow-up". This figure is 9% in Malawi. There is no published information about the true outcome status of these patients. APPROACH: In four facilities in...

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Hlavní autoři: Joseph Kwong-Leung Yu, Solomon Chih-Cheng Chen, Kuo-Yang Wang, Chao-Sung Chang, Simon D Makombe, Erik J Schouten, Anthony D Harries
Médium: Článek
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: The World Health Organization
Edice:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
On-line přístup:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862007000700013&lng=en&tlng=en