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Do HIV treatment eligibility expansions crowd out the sickest?: Evidence from rural South Africa

The 2015 WHO recommendation to initiate all HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) at diagnosis could potentially overextend health systems and crowd out sicker patients, mitigating the policy's impact. We evaluate whether South Africa's prior eligibility expansion from CD4 ≤ 200 to...

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Hauptverfasser: Kluberg, Sheryl (VerfasserIn) , Bärnighausen, Till (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 27 June 2018
In: Tropical medicine & international health
Year: 2018, Jahrgang: 23, Heft: 9, Pages: 968-979
ISSN:1365-3156
DOI:10.1111/tmi.13122
Online-Zugang:Resolving-System, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13122
Verlag: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tmi.13122
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Verfasserangaben:Sheryl A. Kluberg, Matthew P. Fox, Michael LaValley, Deenan Pillay, Till Bärnighausen and Jacob Bor
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Zusammenfassung:The 2015 WHO recommendation to initiate all HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) at diagnosis could potentially overextend health systems and crowd out sicker patients, mitigating the policy's impact. We evaluate whether South Africa's prior eligibility expansion from CD4 ≤ 200 to CD4 ≤ 350 cells/μl reduced ART uptake in the sickest patients.
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ISSN:1365-3156
DOI:10.1111/tmi.13122

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