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| Martin W G BrinkhofSummaryAffiliation: University of Bern Country: Switzerland Publications
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Mortality of patients lost to follow-up in antiretroviral treatment programmes in resource-limited settings: systematic review and meta-analysisMartin W G Brinkhof
Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 4:e5790. 2009..The retention of patients in antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes is an important issue in resource-limited settings. Loss to follow up can be substantial, but it is unclear what the outcomes are in patients who are lost to programmes...- Mortality after failure of antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan AfricaOlivia Keiser
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Trop Med Int Health 15:251-8. 2010..To assess the outcome of patients who experienced treatment failure with antiretrovirals in sub-Saharan Africa... - Switching to second-line antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings: comparison of programmes with and without viral load monitoringOlivia Keiser
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
AIDS 23:1867-74. 2009..We examined switching from nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based first-line regimens to protease inhibitor-based regimens in Africa, South America and Asia... - Early loss of HIV-infected patients on potent antiretroviral therapy programmes in lower-income countriesMartin W G Brinkhof
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 86:559-67. 2008..To analyse the early loss of patients to antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes in resource-limited settings... - Electronic medical record systems, data quality and loss to follow-up: survey of antiretroviral therapy programmes in resource-limited settingsMathieu Forster
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland
Bull World Health Organ 86:939-47. 2008.... - Correcting mortality for loss to follow-up: a nomogram applied to antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan AfricaMatthias Egger
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Switzerland
PLoS Med 8:e1000390. 2011..As mortality is high in these patients compared to patients remaining in care, ART programmes with high rates of loss to follow-up may substantially underestimate mortality of all patients starting ART... 
Antiretroviral treatment during pregnancyOlivia Keiser
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
AIDS 22:2323-30. 2008..Virologic failure of HIV-positive patients is of special concern during pregnancy. We compared virologic failure and the frequency of treatment changes in pregnant and non-pregnant women of the Swiss HIV Cohort Study...- Mortality of HIV-infected patients starting antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: comparison with HIV-unrelated mortalityMartin W G Brinkhof
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Switzerland
PLoS Med 6:e1000066. 2009..We compared mortality rates observed in HIV-1-infected patients starting ART with non-HIV-related background mortality in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa... - Suicide in HIV-infected individuals and the general population in Switzerland, 1988-2008Olivia Keiser
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Am J Psychiatry 167:143-50. 2010..The authors examined time trends and predictors of suicide in the pre-HAART (1988-1995) and HAART (1996-2008) eras in HIV-infected patients and the general population in Switzerland... - Public-health and individual approaches to antiretroviral therapy: township South Africa and Switzerland comparedOlivia Keiser
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
PLoS Med 5:e148. 2008..We compared virologic response, changes to first-line regimens, and mortality in HIV-infected patients starting HAART in South Africa and Switzerland... - Early mortality and loss to follow-up in HIV-infected children starting antiretroviral therapy in Southern AfricaLukas Fenner
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 54:524-32. 2010..We analyzed mortality in children retained in care and in all children starting ART, taking LTFU into account... - Adjusting mortality for loss to follow-up: analysis of five ART programmes in sub-Saharan AfricaMartin W G Brinkhof
Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 5:e14149. 2010..We adjusted programme-level mortality in the first year of antiretroviral treatment (ART) for excess mortality in patients lost to follow-up... - Antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings 1996 to 2006: patient characteristics, treatment regimens and monitoring in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin AmericaOlivia Keiser
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Bern, Finkenhubelweg 11, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Trop Med Int Health 13:870-9. 2008..To describe temporal trends in baseline clinical characteristics, initial treatment regimens and monitoring of patients starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-limited settings... 
Tuberculosis after initiation of antiretroviral therapy in low-income and high-income countriesMartin W G Brinkhof
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine ISPM, University of Berne, Finkenhubelweg 11, CH 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Clin Infect Dis 45:1518-21. 2007..48 (95% confidence interval, 0.36-0.64) in low-income countries and 0.36 (95% confidence interval, 0.26-0.50) in high-income countries. A low CD4 cell count at the start of therapy was the most important risk factor in both settings...