Since 2013, the WHO has recommended that in low and middle-income countries, all pregnant women not yet on treatment start life-long cART [ 4].
However, with expanding CD4+ criteria for treatment initiation, the number of women already on life-long cART at conception or who are eligible to start when diagnosed during pregnancy has increased [ 1– 3].
In some settings wherein WHO Option B+ has been implemented, high rates of lost-to-follow-up have been observed among pregnant women starting life-long cART with a high CD4+ cell count [ 23, 24].
Given the growing use of concomitant chemotherapy and combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) in HIV/AIDS (Mounier et al, 2009), further studies are needed to verify if this phenomenon occurs with other antiretroviral compounds that are substrates for the ABC transporters and other HIV-related and HIV-unrelated cancers in vitro and in vivo in patients administered life-long cART.
Using data from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) study and the UK and Ireland National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood (NSHPC), women with HIV-RNA 50 copies/ml or less at delivery in 2006 2011, who started life-long cART during pregnancy (n = 321) or conceived on cART (n = 618), were matched by age, duration on cART and time period, with at least one control (non-postpartum).
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Less frequent testing among patients on long-term CART became common in recent years.
It is widely agreed that interruption of long-term cART started during CHI is harmful.
There is some evidence that long-term cART use may contribute to Aβ accumulation [ 70].
For pregnant women starting long-term cART, a once-a-day FDR may promote good adherence.
