Abstract
Methods Data of patients referred to School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata for suspected treatment failure (TF) was analyzed for the period of December2008 to November2013 to ascertain the positive predictive value (PPV) of immunologic and/or clinical parameter for confirming virologic failure (VF) and to observe the short term outcome of secondline treatment. Paired ttest was used for data analysis.
Highlights
strategy is followed in the ART programme of India
Data of patients referred to School of Tropical Medicine
Paired t- test was used for data analysis
Summary
Targeted viral load (VL) strategy is followed in the ART programme of India. Patients failing antiretroviral therapy, undergo VL testing and switched to 2ndline ART if VL is >5000 copies/ml.
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