Retention in Care: A Challenge to Survival with HIV Infection

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Authors

Thomas P. Giordano · Texas Medical Center

Allen L. Gifford · Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services

A. Clinton White · Baylor College of Medicine

Maria E. Suarez Almazor · Baylor College of Medicine

Linda Rabeneck · Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

Christine Hartman · Baylor College of Medicine

Lisa I. Backus

Abstract

Even in a system with few financial barriers to care, a substantial portion of HIV-infected patients have poor retention in care. Poor retention in care predicts poorer survival with HIV infection. Retaining persons in care may improve survival, and optimal methods to retain patients need to be defined.

Topics & Keywords

HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk HIV-related health complications and treatments

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volume 44, Issue 11, pp. 1493-1499

DOI: 10.1086/516778

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