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Surveillance of transmitted HIV drug resistance with the World Health Organization threshold survey method in Lilongwe, Malawi.
Antiviral therapy - 1 Jan 2008
Kamoto Kelita, Aberle-Grasse John
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BACKGROUND: Malawi started rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2004 and by December 2006 had initiated 81,821 patients on treatment in the public sector. Owing to capacity constraints, standard patient care, treatment initiation and follow up are based on World Health Organization (WHO) clinical staging and do not provide laboratory monitoring to assess treatment failure. METHODS: To monitor...
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