Incidence of tuberculosis amongst HIV positive clients who received isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT)
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Authors
Okoli, Emmanuel Ikechukwu
Issue Date
2015-02
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
AIDS , Viral load , CD4+ cells , Adherence , Adult , Antiretroviral therapy , Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) , Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) , Tuberculosis , Incidence , Demographic characteristics
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Abstract
The research objectives were to describe the age and gender of adult HIV positive clients on ART who received IPT; the incidence of tuberculosis among clients that received IPT and the defaulter rate among those that were commenced on IPT. Quantitative non-experimental descriptive retrospective cohort study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence of tuberculosis among adult HIV positive clients who received IPT. 104 clinic records of HIV positive adult clients accessing care at Isithebe Clinic, iLembe-South Africa who were commenced on IPT between 01 July 2010 and 30
November 2011 were analysed. The study found that 66 of 104 (63.5%) study respondents completed the course of IPT and the majority of those that defaulted were due to poor quality of care. Gender was statistically found to have played a role on whether a patient completes IPT. None of the study respondents that completed IPT was diagnosed with TB disease.
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Citation
Okoli, Emmanuel Ikechukwu (2015) Incidence of tuberculosis amongst HIV positive clients who received isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT), University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19152>