The was guide composed of broader themes that relate to attitude and perception on ART, perceived benefit of ART treatment, perceived risk of treatment, knowledge about treatment adherence, family strategies to ensure treatment adherence, children's experience with treatment and perceived barriers to treatment adherence.
Despite international recommendations and the proven benefit of ART, physicians remain reluctant to prescribe ART to HIV-infected TB patients, due to concerns about overlapping toxicity, drug-drug interactions, pill burden, and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) [ 6].
Despite international recommendations and the proven benefit of ART, physicians remain reluctant to prescribe ART to HIV-infected TB patients, because of concerns about overlapping toxicity, drug-drug interactions, pill burden, and immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) [ 12].
Although the overall risks and benefit of ART for reducing cardiovascular events is still controversial, continuous ART has been associated with better CVD outcomes than the ART interruption as demonstrated by the Strategies for Management of Antiretroviral Therapy (SMART) study [ 7].
29 In high-income countries, there is a trend to initiate ART with ever-increasing CD4 count thresholds as the benefit of ART to prevent transmission of HIV is becoming increasingly apparent.
Because initiating treatment at this threshold may indicate a selected group that are clinically more unwell, the benefit of ART is likely to underestimate the absolute risk reduction were ARTs given to the whole group at this CD4 threshold.
However, if the benefit of ARTs in cancer patients in confirmed, how will the prospect of using these drugs to treat cancer patients in malaria-endemic areas be addressed?
Other studies have clearly shown the benefits of ART on long term mortality in TB patients, with large reductions in overall mortality in those receiving ART [ 29, 30].
However, considering previous studies describing the benefits of ART on weight and height gain [ 24– 27]), we hypothesise that these children were probably initiated on ART based on clinical criteria such as malnutrition.
His strong belief in the social benefits of art remains undimmed.
This review presents available evidence regarding the benefits of art therapy and therapeutic arts interventions for stroke survivors.
