Sentence examples for antiretroviral programme from inspiring English sources

South Africa has the world's largest population of people living with HIV, at 6.8 million, and the funds will help expand its antiretroviral programme, which provides treatment to more than 3 million patients.

Patients had access to the national antiretroviral programme but had not yet commenced antiretroviral therapy or received more than four days of TB treatment at study enrolment.

The guidelines for entry into the antiretroviral programme were: i) WHO Stage 1 or 2 HIV disease if CD4 count is <200 cells/mm3, or ii) WHO Stage 3 disease if CD4 is <350 cells/mm3, or iii) WHO Stage 4 disease, irrespective of the CD4 cell count [13].

The data presented here represent the first published study to date of renal impairment from a rural African antiretroviral programme.

The local antiretroviral programme began in late 2004 as a partnership between the Department of Health and the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Somkhele.

South Africa's antiretroviral programme is governed by defined national plans, establishing treatment targets and providing funding through ring-fenced conditional grants.

Coverage of antiretroviral programmes for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission increased from 57% in 2011 to 62% in 2012.

Finally, we believe that large antiretroviral programmes should undertake an audit of clinically significant drug interactions as a proxy for the quality of prescribing within that scheme.

Detailed prevalence data from the nearby region [23] and experience of local antiretroviral programmes, suggests that the structure of the local population and relative prevalence of HIV between men and women, means more women both have HIV and access treatment.

Herbal preparations are cheap and simple; hence they remain a hope for the infected people who cannot access the government sponsored antiretroviral programmes [ 3].

Third, the large burden of tuberculosis we found, which is typical of other African studies, emphasises that prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis should be integrated into antiretroviral programmes.