HIV/AIDS care and treatment in three provinces in northern Thailand before the national scale-up of highly-active antiretroviral therapy.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
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2006 Jan; 37(1): 83-9
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in English
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| ID: sea-34124
ABSTRACT
In 2003, Thailand launched a program to place 50,000 persons on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) by the end of 2004, following a series of efforts since the early 1990s to develop comprehensive HIV/AIDS care services. To evaluate existing services and needs in advance of the national HAART scale-up, in 2002 we surveyed 31 hospitals and 389 community health centers in three northern Thai provinces, and interviewed 1,015 HIV-infected patients attending outpatient clinics. All hospitals offered voluntary HIV counseling and testing, 84% provided primary prophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, 58% for tuberculosis, 39% for cryptococcal meningitis, and 87% had some experience providing antiretroviral therapy. Community health centers provided more limited service coverage. Of patients interviewed, 63% had been diagnosed with symptomatic HIV disease, and of these, 32% reported ever receiving antiretroviral therapy; 51 % of all patients had received a CD4 T-lymphocyte count. Thailand's current national HAART scale-up is being performed in a setting of well-developed hospital-based services introduced over the course of the epidemic.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
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Quality of Health Care
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Thailand
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Humans
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HIV Infections
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Patient Education as Topic
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Adolescent
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AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
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Community Health Services
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Adult
Type of study:
Controlled clinical trial
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Diagnostic study
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
Year:
2006
Type:
Article
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