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Characteristics and outcomes of individuals enrolled for HIV care in a rural clinic

in Coastal Kenya

Hassan, A.S.

Publication date

2014

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Hassan, A. S. (2014). Characteristics and outcomes of individuals enrolled for HIV care in a

rural clinic in Coastal Kenya.

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Characteristics

and Outcomes of

Individuals Enrolled

for HIV Care in

a Rural Clinic

in Coastal Kenya

Amin S. HASSAn

Three decades after the first reported case, HIV/AIDS re-mains a major global public health challenge. Despite the scale up of HIV/AIDS care and treatment services in sub-Saharan Africa, characteristics of individuals enrolling for care and the continuum of care remains less well described. The changing dynamics of the HIV-1 epidemic warrants an up-to-date description of the clinical and molecular char-acteristics of individuals enrolling for care, with an aim of understanding the epidemic and suggesting potential in-terventions to improve outcomes. This thesis presents the results of studies nested in a longitudinal HIV surveillance system aimed at describing the characteristics and out-comes of individuals enrolling for HIV/AIDS care and treat-ment in a rural HIV clinic in Coastal Kenya.

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