Sentence examples for eligible for initiation from inspiring English sources

The number of Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIVV) infected people eligible for initiation on antiretroviral Therapy (ART) is increasing.

According to clinic files, only 69% of women who were documented as being eligible for initiation of AZT received AZT at their first visit.

Of the 16,109 assessed for ART 7,606 (46 %) were eligible for initiation, and of these 6,099 (80.2%%) were started on ART, while the remaining patients were LTP before ART start.

To be eligible for initiation of HAART, subjects had to present with either WHO stage 4 or CD4 count less than 200 cells/μl, or WHO stage 3 or CD4 count less than 350 cells/μl.

Not all those with CD4 tests would have been eligible for initiation onto ART, so this indicator cannot strictly be taken as a measure of linkage to care in this study.

Second, the children eligible for initiation of ART from the cross-sectional evaluation were consecutively enrolled into a prospective observational HIV treatment cohort and followed for 6 months to measure response to antiretroviral therapy using viral load suppression and immunological markers.

Sixty three (77.8%) of the 81 subjects that had either angular cheilitis or upper respiratory tract infections on both were found to have CD4 counts <350cells/mm3 and therefore would have been eligible for ART initiation, while only 18 of the 81 subjects would have been treated earlier than the required time if it they were considered.

The Partners HSV-2 Study is designed to assess the impact of HSV-2 suppression with acyclovir (400 milligrams orally, twice daily) compared to placebo in reducing HIV-1-transmission among couples in which one partner is HIV-1/HSV-2 co-infected with a CD4 count ≥250 and not eligible for antiretroviral initiation, and their partner is HIV-1-uninfected (ClinicalTrials.gov ID # NCT00194519) [15] [17].

Therefore, determining other clinical factors that are predictive of low CD4 cell count in clinical stages I and II, will be very useful in improving the identification of subjects eligible for ART initiation until low cost CD4 cell count testing is widely available in Uganda.

Angular cheilitis, papular pruritic eruptions and recurrent upper respiratory tract infections were found to be significant predictors of low CD4 cell count among participants in WHO stage 1 and 2. The WHO HIV/AIDS clinical staging guidelines have a low sensitivity and about half of the participants in stages 1 and 2 would be eligible for ART initiation if they had been tested for CD4 count.

The proportion of patients started on ART among those eligible for ART initiation.