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Resistance to antiretroviral drugs in newly diagnosed, young treatment-naïve HIV-positive pregnant women in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Sept 2011
Parboosing R, Naidoo A, Gordon M, Taylor M, Vella V
Abstract excerpt
In 2004, KwaZulu-Natal initiated one of the world's largest HIV/AIDS treatment programs. Studies in South Africa have shown that patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) develop rapidly and transmit drug resistant mutations. Since resistance testing is not widely available in Kwazulu-Natal, the Department of Health conducted the first HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) threshold survey in 2005, which did not identify...
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