Antiretroviral Therapy in Public and Private Routine Health Care Clinics in Cameroon: Lessons from the Douala Antiretroviral (DARVIR) Initiative

Overview

Journal Clin Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2005 Jun 7

PMID 15937770

Citations 19

Authors

Christian Laurent

Henriette Meilo

Jean-Baptiste Guiard-Schmid

Yacouba Mapoure

Jeanne-Marie Noel

Madeleine Mbangue

Ashu Joko

Willy Rozenbaum

Fritz Ntone Ntone

Eric Delaporte

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Abstract

A review of the hospital charts for 788 patients treated in 19 public and private clinics in Cameroon showed that clinical follow-up visits, biologic follow-up visits, and drug supply were irregular and that many patients interrupted treatment. Virological and immunologic effectiveness of therapy was as expected in patients for whom results were available.

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