HIV and the growing health burden from noncommunicable diseases in Botswana: modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The "greying of AIDS" - the aging of the population living with HIV who benefit from antiretroviral treatment (ART) and the emergence of age-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) - has been well documented. The emerging health systems challenges - eg, the implications of HIV on the disease burden from NCDs on the population level, and the evolving role of HIV as a co-morbidity or co-existing disease of various NCDs - are less well understood. The paper elucidates these challenges by providing a quantitative analysis of HIV-NCD interactions for Botswana.

Methods

We projected the prevalence of HIV and of selected NCDs in Botswana using demographic and HIV-specific estimates building on data on the state and the dynamics of the HIV epidemic, using the Spectrum mod

SUBMITTER: Haacker M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6607958 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature