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Antiretroviral Treatment Interruptions among HIV and AIDS Patients

Antiretroviral Treatment Interruptions among HIV and AIDS Patients

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ISBN10: 6138951824
ISBN13: 9786138951827
Publisher: Blues Kids Of Amer
Published: Mar 31 2021
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With interruption of treatment ART can be ineffective, wasteful and dangerous as it can result in hospitalization, new opportunistic infections and premature death. Additionally, the impact of treatment interruptions include increased use of medical resources, drug resistance, some might develop and transmit resistance strains to their spouses and or sexual partners who have been responding well on ART with resultant treatment failure. Treatment interruptions, is also an important factor in drug resistance and treatment failure, it is also a powerful predictor of survival. Therefore, failure to strictly monitor patients‟ to prevent interruption of treatment might compromise patients‟ survival leading to more deaths from the disease.

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