Survival represents the single most important indicator of successful HIV treatment. Routine monitoring fails to capture most deaths. As a result, both regional assessments of the impact of HIV services and identification of hotspots for improvement efforts are limited. We sought to assess true mortality on treatment, characterize the extent under-reporting of mortality in routine health information systems in Zambia, and identify drivers of mortality across sites and over time using a multistage, regionally representative sampling approach.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/estimated-mortality-hiv-treatment-among-active-patients-and-patients-lost-follow-4
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002489
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/charles-b-holmes
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/izukanji-sikazwe
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kombatende-sikombe-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-medicine
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/aids
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/zambia
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health-care