The Senegalese government's highly active antiretroviral therapy initiative: an 18-month follow-up study

Laurent, Christian; Diakhaté, Ndella; Gueye, Ndèye Fatou Ngom; Toure, Macoumba; Sow, Papa Salif; Faye, Mame Awa; Gueye, Mandoumbé; Lanièce, Isabelle; Kane, Coumba Touré; Liégeois, Florian; Vergne, Laurence; Mboup, Souleymane; Badiane, S; Ndoye, Ibrahima; Delaporte, Eric

doi:10.1097/00002030-200207050-00008

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“…In their study of adherence in clinical practice in Abidjan [23], Eholie et al have shown that most of the reasons given by patients for not taking ARVs were similar to those reported by other African researchers: lack of money, repeated stock-outs of ARVs, fear of drug side effects and negative influence of traditional healers [44,45]. As for the latter reason, in their experience, these patients discontinued ART at the request of traditional healers.…”

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Correlation between Health-Related Quality of Life and Various Therapeutic Monitoring Parameters of Ivorian HIV-Infected Patients

Abrogoua¹,

Kamenan²,

N’guessan³

et al. 2012

J AIDS Clinic Res

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Correlation between Health-Related Quality of Life and Various Therapeutic Monitoring Parameters of Ivorian HIV-Infected Patients

Abrogoua¹,

Kamenan²,

N’guessan³

et al. 2012

J AIDS Clinic Res

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“…In Haiti, patients had weight gain and improved functional capacity within one year after the initiation of ART (Koenig, Leandre, and Farmer, 2004). Studies in sub-Saharan Africa have similarly shown rapid improvements in immunological outcomes of patients (Laurent et al, 2002;Coetzee et al, 2004). Rapid improvements in clinical outcomes after the initiation of treatment have also been documented for the sample of patients we study in this paper (Thirumurthy et al, 2008;Wools-Kaloustian et al, 2006).…”

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Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya

Zivin¹,

Damon²,

Thirumurthy³

2010

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Poverty and altered planning horizons brought on by the HIV/AIDS epidemic can change individual discount rates, altering incentives to conserve natural resources. Using longitudinal household survey data from western Kenya, we estimate the effects of health status on investments in soil quality, as indicated by households' agricultural land fallowing decisions. We first show that this effect is theoretically ambiguous: while health improvements lower discount rates and thus increase incentives to conserve natural resources, they also increase labor productivity and make it more likely that households can engage in labor-intensive resource extraction activities. We find that household size and composition are predictors of whether the effect of health improvements on discount rates dominates the productivity effect, or vice-versa. Since households with more and younger members are better able to reallocate labor to cope with productivity shocks, the discount rate effect dominates for these households and health improvements lead to greater levels of conservation. In smaller families with less substitutable labor, the productivity effect dominates and health improvements lead to greater environmental degradation 1 This project would not have been possible without the support of the USAID-Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (USAID-AMPATH). Markus Goldstein and Mabel Nangami were key collaborators on the survey implementation. We are grateful to Markus Goldstein for helpful comments at early stages of this paper, as well as seminar participants at the Brookings Institution, Columbia University, RAND, Duke University, University of Toronto. We also acknowledge research assistance from Sam Masters. Financial support for this project was received from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), The World Bank, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (Thirumurthy, K01HD061605), the Social Science Research Council, the Swedish Research Council Formas, and the Calderone Program at Columbia University. All errors and opinions are our own. 19 Since ART households have 6.8 acres on average, the effect of ART on fallowing, as one would expect, is nearly identical in the two specifications. 20 We also estimated additional regressions to determine whether the number of distinct plots a household owned modified the effect of ART. We did this by including an interaction term between ART and the number of plots of land owned by a household. The interaction term was not statistically significant. We also note that land sales and acquisitions over the 3 year period of our study are extremely low. Only 4% of households in the sample sold land between 2004 and 2006; and 5.5% of households purchased land; changes in quantity of land owned did not affect the results. JEL Classification Codes: I15, Q15, O1

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“…The Chiradzulu programme diff ers from most HAART programmes described so far in Africa with respect to the scaling-up and simplifi cation procedures used and the number of patients already on treatment. [19][20][21] Currently, very few data from programmes currently involved in scaling-up HAART have been reported. [21][22][23][24] Clinical, immunological, and virological treatment outcomes obtained in our study are comparable with those described in cohorts from developing as well as developed countries, [21][22][23][24][25][26] and indicate that despite scarce medical and monitoring resources, a large cohort of patients with advanced stages of HIV disease could clearly benefi t from fi rst-line antiretroviral treatment.…”

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Scaling up of highly active antiretroviral therapy in a rural district of Malawi: an effectiveness assessment

Ferradini¹,

Jeannin

Pinoges³

et al. 2006

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The Senegalese government's highly active antiretroviral therapy initiative: an 18-month follow-up study

Cited by 223 publications

References 22 publications

Correlation between Health-Related Quality of Life and Various Therapeutic Monitoring Parameters of Ivorian HIV-Infected Patients

Correlation between Health-Related Quality of Life and Various Therapeutic Monitoring Parameters of Ivorian HIV-Infected Patients

Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya

Scaling up of highly active antiretroviral therapy in a rural district of Malawi: an effectiveness assessment

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