Kowalska, JD;
Ankiersztejn-Bartczak, M;
Shepherd, L;
Mocroft, A;
(2018)
Cascade of care and factors associated with virological suppression among HIV-positive persons linked to care in the Test and Keep in Care (TAK) project.
Infection
, 46
(4)
pp. 533-540.
10.1007/s15010-018-1154-0.
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Abstract
Introduction: Early treatment remains the most effective HIV prevention strategy; poor linkage to care after HIV diagnosis may compromise this benefit. We sought to better understand patient characteristics and their association with virological suppression (VS) following cART initiation. / Methods: The TAK project collects pre-linkage to care and clinical data on patients diagnosed with HIV in voluntary testing facilities in central Poland. Data collected for persons diagnosed in 2010–2013 were linked with HIV clinic records. Individuals linked to care who commenced cART were followed from until the earliest of first VS (HIV RNA < 50 copies/ml), last visit, death or 6 January 2016. Cox-proportional hazard models were used to identify factors associated with first viral suppression. / Results: 232 persons were HIV positive, 144 (62%, 95% CI 55, 68%) linked to care, 116 (81% of those linked to care, 95% CI 73, 87%) started cART during follow up, of which 113 (97%, 95% CI 93, 99%) achieved VS. Non-PI based regimen (for integrase inhibitors aHR: 5.03: 1.90, 13.32) and HLA B5701-positive (aHR: 3.97: 1.33, 11.85) were associated with higher chance of VS. Unknown syphilis status (aHR: 0.27: 0.13, 0.57) and higher HIV RNA (aHR a tenfold increase: 0.56: 0.42, 0.75) remained associated with lower chance of VS. / Conclusions: Although a low proportion of persons were linked to care, almost all those linked to care started cART and achieved rapid VS. The high rates of VS were irrespective of prior HIV-associated risk behaviours. Linkage to care remains the highest priority in prevention strategies in central Poland.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Cascade of care and factors associated with virological suppression among HIV-positive persons linked to care in the Test and Keep in Care (TAK) project |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s15010-018-1154-0 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-018-1154-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | HIV, Linkage, Viral suppression, Cascade of care, Antiretroviral therapy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10055522 |
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