Impact of baseline health and community support on antiretroviral treatment outcomes in HIV patients in South Africa

AIDS ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (18) ◽  
pp. 2545-2548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Wouters ◽  
Wim Van Damme ◽  
Dingie van Rensburg ◽  
Herman Meulemans
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Treatment Outcomes ◽  
Antiretroviral Treatment ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Hiv Patients ◽  
Baseline Health

scholarly journals Antiretroviral Treatment Outcomes amongst Older Adults in a Large Multicentre Cohort in South Africa

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. e100273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Fatti ◽  
Eula Mothibi ◽  
Graeme Meintjes ◽  
Ashraf Grimwood
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Treatment Outcomes ◽  
Antiretroviral Treatment ◽  
Multicentre Cohort

scholarly journals Looking back at paediatric HIV treatment in South Africa. My, how we have grown!

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon J. Levin ◽  
Juliet L. Horak ◽  
James Nuttall
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Triple Therapy ◽  
Antiretroviral Treatment ◽  
Dual Therapy ◽  
Hiv Treatment ◽  
Hiv Patients ◽  
Paediatric Hiv ◽  
Paediatric Patients ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Looking Back

Antiretroviral treatment has undergone major changes in the last 20 years, from monotherapy, to dual therapy and finally to triple therapy. Lately, more focus has been placed on better, more well-tolerated combinations and formulations. As in most other disciplines in medicine, the development of paediatric HIV dosages and formulations always tends to lag behind adult research. Twenty years ago, it could take several years before data were available to enable the use of life-saving antiretrovirals in children. Paediatricians, being ever resourceful, were not prepared to let their paediatric patients suffer despite the lack of data or formulations and so made a plan. This article describes some of the trials and tribulations that we went through trying to make sure that our paediatric HIV patients not only survived but thrived. Clinicians treating paediatric patients today have it so much easier because of what our colleagues and their patients went through in those early days.

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