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Discontinuation of cART postpartum in a high prevalence district of South Africa in 2014

Overview of attention for article published in Implementation Science, October 2014
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Title
Discontinuation of cART postpartum in a high prevalence district of South Africa in 2014
Published in
Implementation Science, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/s13012-014-0139-3
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Lore Claessens, Anna Voce, Stephen Knight, Benn Sartorius, Ashraf Coovadia

Abstract

BackgroundCombination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is the current strategy to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. Women initiated on cART should continue taking treatment life-long or stop after cessation of breastfeeding depending on their CD4 cell count or World Health Organization (WHO) staging. Keeping people living with HIV on treatment is essential for the success of any anti-retroviral therapy (ART) programme. There has been a rapid scale-up of cART in the PMTCT programme in South Africa. cART is supposed to be taken life-long or until cessation of breastfeeding, but premature or unmanaged discontinuation of cART postpartum is not unusual in South Africa and is confirmed by studies from around the world. Discontinuation of cART can lead to mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), drug resistance and poor maternal outcomes. The extent of this problem in the South African context however is unclear. This study aims to determine the prevalence of and identify risk factors associated with, discontinuation of cART postpartum amongst women who were initiated on antiretroviral treatment during their index pregnancy.MethodsAn observational analytic cross-sectional study design will be conducted in six health facilities in a high prevalence district in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa over a period of three months in 2014. An interviewer-administered questionnaire will be used to collect data from mothers who initiated cART during the index pregnancy. The prevalence of discontinuation of cART postpartum will be measured and the association between those who discontinue cART postpartum and independent variables will be estimated using multivariable adjusted prevalence odds ratios for discontinuation.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ethiopia 1 1%
Unknown 94 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 16%
Researcher 13 14%
Lecturer 6 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Other 15 16%
Unknown 21 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 11%
Social Sciences 7 7%
Psychology 6 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 5%
Other 20 21%
Unknown 22 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 October 2014.
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#13,180,774
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#1,381
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#118,211
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Outputs of similar age from Implementation Science
#41
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