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for 4 PEP strategies: the current USPHS recommendations, triple drug therapy, zidovudine monotherapy or no prophylaxis. A …
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disease. Results of a pivotal randomised study (DMP 266-006) comparing efavirenz- versus indinavir-based triple combination … with the indinavir-based regimen. In conclusion, current treatment guidelines for HIV infection recognise efavirenz … greater virological response to efavirenz- than indinavir-based triple combination therapy, and the efavirenz-based regimen …
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Objective: The aim of the study was to measure the use and estimate the cost of HIV service provision in England. Design and Setting: Standardised activity and case-severity data were collected prospectively in 10 English HIV clinics (5 London and 5 non-London sites) for the periods 1 January...
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The advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), including protease inhibitors and/or non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, for the treatment of HIV infection has led to a dramatic decline of morbidity and mortality. The acquisition costs of HAART are substantial. However,...
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indinavir and 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs; zidovudine and lamivudine) in HIV-positive patients. Design … dollars (1998 values) relative to initial therapy with the indinavir-containing regimen. Patients who receive efavirenz are …Objective: To compare the clinical and economic outcomes associated with triple therapy containing efavirenz or …
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developed countries. Two nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors, such as lamivudine and zidovudine, plus a … for initial or second-line treatment. A combination formulation of lamivudine and zidovudine has recently become available …. Combination therapy with lamivudine and zidovudine (as dual therapy or in combination with another nucleoside analogue reverse …
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lamivudine + (zidovudine or didanosine or zalcitabine or stavudine)]; and ERA-III [2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors …) regimens, denoted as ERA-I [zidovudine + (didanosine or zalcitabine)]; ERA-II [stavudine + (didanosine or zalcitabine) or …
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carcinoma. Lamivudine is the only oral antiviral agent approved for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis B …. Lamivudine is useful in a wide range of patients with chronic hepatitis B and ongoing viral replication. In patients with … compensated liver disease treated for 52 weeks in multicenter randomized, double-blind clinical studies, lamivudine 100 mg …
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Objective: To describe the use of hospital and community services for children infected with HIV and estimate the cost per patient-year by stage of HIV infection during the era of antiretroviral monotherapy. Design: Data on the use of hospital services were collected from case notes; the use of...
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This review of published studies on the costs of HIV treatment and care describes some of the recent developments that have influenced these costs in industrialised and industrialising countries, especially within the context of changing drug treatments. Some of the different approaches to...
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