Trends in antiretroviral treatment use and treatment response in three Australian states in the first decade of combination antiretroviral treatment

Sexual Health

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-154

  Falster, Kathleen ^a,b   Gelgor, Linda ^a   Shaik, Ansari ^a   Zablotska, Iryna ^c   Prestage, Garrett ^a   Grierson, Jeffrey ^d   Thorpe, Rachel ^d   Pitts, Marian ^d   Anderson, Jonathan ^a,e   Chuah, John ^f   Mulhall, Brian ^g   Petoumenos, Kathy ^a   Kelleher, Anthony ^a   Law, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Carlton Clinic   (Australia)

^f Gold Coast Sexual Health Clinic   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; EFAVIRENZ; EMTRICITABINE; LAMIVUDINE; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; NEVIRAPINE; STAVUDINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY CARE; DATA BASE; DRUG USE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCRIPTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS LOAD;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUEENSLAND; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION; VICTORIA;

EID: 44649196022     PISSN: 14485028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SH07082     Document Type: Article

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