South Africa
Long-term outcomes of HIV-infected women receiving antiretroviral therapy after transferring out of an integrated maternal and child health service in South Africa
Phillips T, Mooba P, Brittain K, Gomba Y, Zerbe A, Myer L, Abrams E. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2019 November. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002236 Background: Integrated maternal and child health (MCH) services improve women’s...
September 2019: ADVANCE trial of three ART regimens shows dolutegravir treatments to have noninferior efficacy with standard of care, but cause significantly more weight gain
Article and Study Summary Dolutegravir plus two different prodrugs of tenofovir to treat HIV. Published in: N Engl J Med 2019; 381:803-815. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1902824 Authors: Venter WDF, Moorhouse M, Sokhela S, et al. Summary: The ADVANCE...
“You must leave but I didn’t want to leave”: qualitative evaluation of the integration of ART into postnatal maternal and child health services in Cape Town, South Africa
Pellowski JA, Weber AZ, Phillips TK, Brittain K, Zerbe A, Abrams EJ, Myer L. AIDS Care. 2019 Aug 27:1-6. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2019.1659913. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract Postpartum HIV care retention rates are well below retention rates of the general adult...