Transmitted antiretroviral drug resistance among drug-naive female sex workers with recent infection in Kampala, Uganda

Abstract

During 2006-2007, transmitted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) drug resistance (TDR) among drug-naive women with newly diagnosed HIV infection and likely to be recently infected when attending antenatal clinics in Entebbe was found to be <5% with use of the World Health Organization (WHO) survey method. Using the same method, we attempted to classify TDR among women who seroconverted during 2008-2010 and who were identified from a cohort of recently infected sex workers in Kampala, Uganda. TDR mutations were identified using the 2009 WHO TDR mutations list. The WHO survey method could not be used to classify TDR because the necessary sample size was not reached during the survey period. However, a point prevalence estimate of 2.6% (95% confidence interval, 0.07%-13.8%) nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor TDR was determined.