Abstract

Address: 1Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK, 2Copenhagen HIV Programme, Panum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 3Academisch Medisch Centrum bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4Istituto Di Clinica Malattie Infettive e Tropicale, Milan, Italy, 5Hospital Clinic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, 6Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK, 7Medical University, Gdansk, Poland and 8Medical Academy Botkin Hospital, St Petersburg, Russian Federation * Corresponding author

Highlights

  • Achieving virological suppression in immunocompromised patients is important for reducing the risk of opportunistic infections (OIs)

  • Patients contributed to the person-years at risk if the most recent CD4 count was ≤200 cells/mm3, and if viral load (VL) was measured in the 6 months before the CD4 count

  • Multivariable analyses were adjusted for current CD4 count, VL, calendar time of follow-up, age, whether or not ART-naive, ethnicity, risk group, hepatitis B and C status, and for death rates, prior AIDS diagnosis

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WP Bannister*1, A Mocroft, O Kirk, P Reiss, A d'Arminio Monforte, JM Gatell, M Fisher, H Trocha, A Rakhmanova and JD Lundgren. Address: 1Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK, 2Copenhagen HIV Programme, Panum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, 3Academisch Medisch Centrum bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4Istituto Di Clinica Malattie Infettive e Tropicale, Milan, Italy, 5Hospital Clinic i Provincial, Barcelona, Spain, 6Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK, 7Medical University, Gdansk, Poland and 8Medical Academy Botkin Hospital, St Petersburg, Russian Federation. Published: 10 November 2008 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2008, 11(Suppl 1):O36 doi:10.1186/1758-2652-11-S1-O36. Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-11-S1-info.pdf

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