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Rapid Screening of HIV Reverse Transcriptase and Integrase Inhibitors
Published on: April 9, 2014
注射薬物使用者の自己報告による抗レトロウイルス治療
D D Celentano1, D Vlahov, S Cohn
1Department of Epidemiology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. dcelenta@jhsph.edu
JAMA
|August 26, 1998
まとめ
HIVに感染した注射薬物使用者 (IDU) の半数は,最近抗レトロウイルス治療 (ART) を受けていないと報告した. 継続的なケアや薬物治療などの要因は,ART使用と関連しており,この集団におけるHIV管理戦略の改善の必要性を強調しています.
科学分野:
- 公衆衛生は公衆衛生である.
- 感染症 感染症は感染症です.
- 依存症医学 薬物中毒医学
背景:
- ヒト免疫不全ウイルス (HIV) に対する抗レトロウイルス療法 (ART) の最近のガイドラインが存在します.
- 逸話的な証拠は,HIVに感染した注射薬物使用者 (IDU) のサブ最適のARTケアを示唆しています.
研究 の 目的:
- HIVに感染したIDUの間でARTの利用を評価する.
主な方法:
- 1996年7月から1997年6月にかけて,404人のHIV感染者IDUの横断調査が行われました.
- 自己報告されたART使用は,現在の治療法がない,単独療法,または併用療法 (プロテアゼ阻害剤とまたはそれなし) に分類されました.
- ART使用に関連する要因は,多変量分析を使用して分析されました.
主要な成果:
- IDUの49%は最近ARTを受けていないと報告し,14%は単独療法を受け,23%はプロテアゼ阻害剤なしで併用療法を受け,14%はプロテアゼ阻害剤との三重併用療法を受けています.
- 介護の継続性,近年の外来診察,CD4+値の低下,現在の薬物使用状況,薬物治療,失業がART使用と関連していた.
- 現在の薬物注射者および最近投獄された個人は,プロテアゼ阻害剤を受ける可能性が低いが,エイズ患者はそうである可能性が高くなった.
結論:
- ARTを受けていないHIVに感染した注射薬物使用者は,多くの場合,重大な臨床疾患もなく,医療との接触が少ない,活発な薬物使用者でした.
- この研究は,HIVに感染したIDUに対する改善されたART戦略の必要性を示しています.
- HIVと薬物乱用治療サービスの統合は,これらの同時発生の流行に対処するために推奨されます.
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