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Use of Antiretroviral Therapy for a US Medicaid Enrolled Pediatric Cohort with HIV
- Source :
- AIDS and Behavior. 25:2455-2462
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Appropriate antiretroviral therapy use in children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is essential for optimizing clinical outcomes and preventing HIV transmission. To describe and determine correlates of HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) persistence and implementation for children and adolescents in the United States. We studied Medicaid enrollees (ages 2–19 years) with HIV in 14 states in 2011 and 2012. We defined non-persistence as a discontinuation of an ART regimen for at least 90 days, and calculated implementation as the proportion of days on ART while persistent. We used Cox proportional regression and logistic regression to determine characteristics associated with ART non-persistence and poor (
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Social Psychology
Anti-HIV Agents
Psychological intervention
Alcohol abuse
HIV Infections
Cohort Studies
Young Adult
medicine
Humans
Child
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Medicaid
business.industry
Public health
Hazard ratio
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
medicine.disease
United States
Discontinuation
Regimen
Infectious Diseases
Child, Preschool
Cohort
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733254 and 10907165
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIDS and Behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d1ba586db221d3b4f335d56ad2f7dc89