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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ujeneza EL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7857728 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20210114
Long-term effects of the growing population of HIV-treated people in Southern Africa on individuals and the public health sector at large are not yet understood. This study proposes a novel 'ratio' model that relates CD4+ T-cell counts of HIV-infected individuals to the CD4+ count reference values from healthy populations. We use mixed-effects regression to fit the model to data from 1616 children (median age 4.3 years at ART initiation) and 14,542 adults (median age 36 years at ART initiation). ...[more]