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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en Inglés
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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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Asunto principal:
Servicio Ambulatorio en Hospital
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Calidad de la Atención de Salud
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Tailandia
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Humanos
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Infecciones por VIH
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Educación del Paciente como Asunto
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Adolescente
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Infecciones Oportunistas Relacionadas con el SIDA
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Servicios de Salud Comunitaria
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Adulto
Tipo de estudio:
Ensayo Clínico Controlado
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Estudio diagnóstico
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
Inglés
Revista:
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health
Año:
2006
Tipo del documento:
Artículo
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