Monitoring the South African National Antiretroviral Treatment Programme, 2003 - 2007: The IeDEA Southern Africa collaboration

M Cornell, K Technau, L Fairall, R Wood, H Moultrie, G van Cutsem, J Giddy, L Mohapi, B Eley, P MacPhail, H Prozesky, H Rabie, M-A Davies, N Maxwell, A Boulle

Abstract


Objectives. To introduce the combined South African cohorts
of the International epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate
AIDS Southern Africa (IeDEA-SA) collaboration as reflecting
the South African national antiretroviral treatment (ART)
programme; to characterise patients accessing these services;
and to describe changes in services and patients from 2003 to
2007.
Design and setting. Multi-cohort study of 11 ART programmes
in Gauteng, Western Cape, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.
Subjects. Adults and children (

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South African Medical Journal.   ISSN: 003-8-2469