Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Keletso Makofane

Publications

• Research Article
  HIV Treatment Cascades that Leak: Correlates of Drop-off from the HIV Care Continuum among Men who have Sex with Men Worldwide
  Author(s): George Ayala, Keletso Makofane, Glenn-Milo Santos, Sonya Arreola, Pato Hebert, Matthew Thomann, Patrick Wilson, Jack Beck and Tri D. DoGeorge Ayala, Keletso Makofane, Glenn-Milo Santos, Sonya Arreola, Pato Hebert, Matthew Thomann, Patrick Wilson, Jack Beck and Tri D. Do
  
  Objectives: The health and prevention benefits of antiretroviral therapies (ART), delivered as part of comprehensive HIV care programs remain unrealized for men who have sex with men (MSM). This multilevel study explores the correlates of drop-off from the HIV care continuum in an international study of MSM, taking into account individual and regional differences in access to and utilization of care. Methods: We conducted a study of the continuum of HIV diagnosis and care among 6095 MSM using data collected from an international online survey of MSM conducted in 2012. In this model of the HIV treatment cascade, we treated each point along the continuum as an outcome variable. We then investigated the relationships between clinical care outcomes and a set of demographic and psychosocial factors that were hypothesized to correlate with the outcomes using bivariate and multivaria.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113.1000331

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