Abstract

LARREA FABRA, Roberto  and  ROQUE ACOSTA, María del Carmen. Effectiveness of high efficiency antiretroviral therapy in AIDS attention. Rev cubana med [online]. 2007, vol.46, n.4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-302X.

The free mass public access to the antiretrovirals in South Africa in 2004, made necessary the search of effectivity indicators of the triple therapeutic regimes in the attention to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The positive HIV cases from Bojanala that visited the AIDS Clinic in Rustenburg from April 2004 to November 2005 were studied. Serial tests of CD4 and viral load were made among the cases under treatment to evaluate the effectiveness of the high efficiency antiretroviral therapy (HEARVT) in our clinic. The deaths, the survivors under treatment, the patients under immunological reconstitution and/or virological suppression, the index of cases with objective therapeutic effectivity per every death, and the cases with opportunistic disease before and after the application of the antiretrovirals were tabulated. 4 339 positive HIV patients, of whom 2 446 (56.4 %) received HEARVT in that period, were studied. It was found that 201 cases (8.2 %) that were under treatment died. It was observed a predominance of deaths among those who suffered from opportunistic diseases and/or advanced immunodepression. 749 cases attained the immunological reconstitution; 1 021, the virological suppression; and 576, both. In all, 1 149 patients (48.8 %) obtained at least an objective of therapeutic efficiency. The efficacy index per death was 5.9 per 1. 43 opportunistic diseases were confirmed after beginning the application of the antiretrovirals. Only 5 of them corresponded to therapeutic failure. It was concluded that the use of high effectivity antiretroviral therapy showed a high effectiveness in our clinic, improving survival and the quality of life of the population.

Keywords : Antiretrovirals; HEARVT; AIDS.