Use of WHO clinical stage for assessing patient eligibility to antiretroviral therapy in a routine health service setting in Jinja, Uganda.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2008

• Country: Uganda
• Document Type: Journal Article
• Theme: Health
• Authors: Grosskurth, H., Jaffar, S., Birungi, J., Amuron, B., Namara, G., Nabiryo, C., Coutinho, A.

Abstract

In a routine service delivery setting in Uganda, we assessed the ability of the WHO clinical stage to accurately identify HIV-infected patients in whom antiretroviral therapy should be started. Among 4302 subjects screened for ART, the sensitivity and specificity (95% CI) of WHO stage III, IV against a CD4 count

Citation

AIDS Research and Therapy (2008) 5 (4) 1742-6405 [doi: 10.1186/1742-6405-5-4]

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Use of WHO clinical stage for assessing patient eligibility to antiretroviral therapy in a routine health service setting in Jinja, Uganda.

Published 1 January 2008