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Retention in care for adolescents who were newly initiated on antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Metropole in South Africa
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)
Long-term retention of adolescents aged 10-19 years on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is crucial to achieve viral load suppression. However, it is reported globally that adolescents have lower retention in care (RiC) on ART, ...
Desperate times call for desperate measures: Adapting antiretroviral service delivery in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
(SAMA, 2020)
On 23 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa
announced a nation-wide lockdown to help curb the spread of the
COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa (SA). While these containment
measures are considered to have limited the ...
Two-year viral load suppression among adolescents receiving antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Metropole, South Africa, 2013 - 2015: A retrospective cohort analysis
(South African Medical Association, 2020)
Background. In 2018, 4% of all people living with HIV globally were adolescents aged 10 - 19 years. It is reported that adolescents on antiretroviral therapy (ART) are at increased risk of poor viral load suppression (VLS) ...