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. 2017 Jul 15;18(1):776.
doi: 10.4102/sajhivmed.v18i1.776. eCollection 2017.

Adult antiretroviral therapy guidelines 2017

Graeme Meintjes  1 , Michelle A Moorhouse  1 , Sergio Carmona  1 , Natasha Davies  1 , Sipho Dlamini  1 , Cloete van Vuuren  1 , Thandekile Manzini  1 , Moeketsi Mathe  1 , Yunus Moosa  1 , Jennifer Nash  1 , Jeremy Nel  1 , Yoliswa Pakade  1 , Joana Woods  1 , Gert Van Zyl  1 , Francesca Conradie  1 , Francois Venter  1
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Adult antiretroviral therapy guidelines 2017

Graeme Meintjes et al. South Afr J HIV Med. .

Abstract

These guidelines are intended as an update to those published in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine in 2014 and the update on when to initiate antiretroviral therapy in 2015. Since the release of the previous guidelines, the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in southern Africa has continued. New antiretroviral drugs have become available with improved efficacy, safety and robustness. The guidelines are intended for countries in the southern African region, which vary between lower and middle income.

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The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) which may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.

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Indications for doing a resistance test on second-line antiretroviral therapy.
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Algorithm for choosing drugs in third-line antiretroviral therapy regimen based on Stanford database score.
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