التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
HIV care in Yangon, Myanmar; successes, challengesand implications for policy. |
| المؤلفون: |
Ne Myo Aung, Josh Hanson, Tint Tint Kyi, Zaw Win Htet, Cooper, David A., Boyd, Mark A., Mar Mar Kyi, Htin Aung Saw |
| المصدر: |
AIDS Research & Therapy; 3/4/2017, Vol. 14, p1-7, 7p, 2 Charts |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
AIDS, HIV infection risk factors, TUBERCULOSIS prevention, AIDS patients, ANTITUBERCULAR agents, HIV-positive persons, ISONIAZID, MEDICAL care use, ANTIRETROVIRAL agents, DATA analysis software, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, MIXED infections, PROGNOSIS |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
MYANMAR |
| مستخلص: |
Background: Approximately 0.8% of adults aged 18-49 in Myanmar are seropositive for Human Immunodeiciency Virus (HIV). Identifying the demographic, epidemiological and clinical characteristics of people living with HIV (PLHIV) is essential to inform optimal management strategies in this resource-limited country. Methods: To create a "snapshot" of the PLHIV seeking anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in Myanmar, data were collected from the registration cards of all patients who had been prescribed ART at two large referral hospitals in Yangon, prior to March 18, 2016. Results and discussion: Anti-retroviral therapy had been prescribed to 2643 patients at the two hospitals. The patients' median [interquartile range (IQR)] age was 37 (31-44) years; 1494 (57%) were male. At registration, injecting drug use was reported in 22 (0.8%), male-to-male sexual contact in eleven (0.4%) and female sex work in eleven (0.4%), suggesting that patients under-report these risk behaviours, that health care workers are uncomfortable enquiring about them or that the two hospitals are under-servicing these populations. All three explanations appear likely. Most patients were symptomatic at registration with 2027 (77%) presenting with WHO stage 3 or 4 disease. In the 2442 patients with a CD4+ T cell count recorded at registration, the median (IQR) count was 169 (59-328) cells/mm³. After a median (IQR) duration of 359 (185-540) days of ART, 151 (5.7%) patients had died, 111 (4.2%) patients had been lost to follow-up, while 2381 were alive on ART. Tuberculosis (TB) co-infection was common: 1083 (41%) were already on anti-TB treatment at registration, while a further 41 (1.7%) required anti-TB treatment during follow-up. Only 21 (0.8%) patients were prescribed isoniazid prophylaxis therapy (IPT); one of these was lost to follow-up, but none of the remaining 20 patients died or required anti-TB treatment during a median (IQR) follow-up of 275 (235-293) days. Conclusions: People living with HIV in Yangon, Myanmar are generally presenting late in their disease course, increasing their risk of death, disease and transmitting the virus. A centralised model of ART prescription struggles to deliver care to the key afected populations. TB co-infection is very common in Myanmar, but despite the proven efficacy of IPT, it is frequently not prescribed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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