Successes and challenges in optimizing the viral load cascade to improve antiretroviral therapy adherence and rationalize second‐line switches in Swaziland

D Etoori, I Ciglenecki, M Ndlangamandla… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction As antiretroviral therapy (ART) is scaled up, more patients become eligible for
routine viral load (VL) monitoring, the most important tool for monitoring ART efficacy. For …

HIV virological failure and drug resistance in a cohort of Tanzanian HIV-infected adults

C Hawkins, N Ulenga, E Liu, S Aboud… - Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objectives There are few data on ART failure rates and drug resistance from Tanzania,
where there is a wide diversity of non-B HIV subtypes. We assessed rates and predictors of …

[HTML][HTML] Determining virological suppression and resuppression by point-of-care viral load testing in a HIV care setting in sub-Saharan Africa

G Villa, A Abdullahi, D Owusu, C Smith… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background This prospective pilot study explored same-day point-of-care viral load testing
in a setting in Ghana that has yet to implement virological monitoring of antiretroviral therapy …

Prevalence of pretreatment HIV drug resistance in Cameroon following a nationally representative WHO survey

GF Tchouwa, S Eymard-Duvernay… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Pretreatment HIV drug resistance (PDR) has the potential to affect treatment
outcome and mortality. We present here the first nationally representative PDR study …

Alarming rates of virological failure and drug resistance in patients on long-term antiretroviral treatment in routine HIV clinics in Togo

AA Konou, AY Dagnra, N Vidal, M Salou, Z Adam… - AIDs, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Information on efficacy of long-term antiretroviral treatment (ART) exposure in
resource-limited countries is still scarce. In 767 patients attending routine HIV centers in …

Prevalence of HIV antiretroviral drug resistance and its impacts on HIV‐1 virological failures in Jiangsu, China: a cross‐sectional study

Y Zhou, J Lu, J Wang, H Yan, J Li, X Xu… - BioMed research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been shown to improve survival of patients with Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection and to reduce HIV‐1 transmission. Therefore, the …

Prevalence of HIV-1 drug resistance among patients failing first-line ART in Monrovia, Liberia: a cross-sectional study

P Loubet, C Charpentier, B Visseaux… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To assess the prevalence of acquired drug resistance in HIV-1-infected patients
living in Monrovia, Liberia, who had clinical and/or immunological failure of first-line ART …

Antiretroviral resistance after first-line antiretroviral therapy failure in diverse HIV-1 subtypes in the SECOND-LINE Study

EP Lam, CL Moore, E Gotuzzo, C Nwizu… - AIDS research and …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
We investigate mutations and correlates according to HIV-1 subtype after virological failure
(VF) of standard first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART)(non-nucleoside/nucleotide reverse …

HIV‐1 Drug Resistance, Distribution of Subtypes, and Drug Resistance‐Associated Mutations in Virologic Failure Individuals in Chengdu, Southwest China, 2014 …

J Chen, Y Liu, S Liu, D Yuan, L Su, L Ye… - BioMed Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The National Free Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Program in China has initiated to provide
ART to HIV‐1 patients, which has acted as an efficient method to suppress viral replication …

[HTML][HTML] Standardized enhanced adherence counseling for improved HIV viral suppression among children and adolescents in Homa Bay and Turkana Counties …

RO Masaba, G Woelk, N Herrera, S Siamba, R Simiyu… - Medicine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Viral suppression is suboptimal among children and adolescents on antiretroviral therapy
(ART) in Kenya. We implemented and evaluated a standardized enhanced adherence …