Will adoption of the 2010 WHO ART guidelines for HIV-infected TB patients increase the demand for ART services in India?

Will adoption of the 2010 WHO ART guidelines for HIV-infected TB patients increase the demand for ART services in India?

BACKGROUND: In 2010, WHO expanded previously-recommended indications for anti-retroviral treatment to include all HIV-infected TB patients irrespective of CD4 count. India, however, still limits ART to those TB patients with CD4 counts <350/mm(3) or with extrapulmonary TB manifestations. We sough...

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Main Authors: Ajay M V Kumar, Devesh Gupta, B B Rewari, Damodar Bachani, Suresh Mohammed, Vartika Sharma, Kumaraswamy Lal, H R Raveendra Reddy, Balaji Naik, Rita Prasad, Mohammed Yaqoob, K G Deepak, Suresh Shastri, Srinath Satyanarayana, Anthony David Harries, Lakhbir Singh Chauhan, Puneet Dewan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3169570?pdf=render

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