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Title: | The role of emergency department HIV care in resource-poor settings: lessons learned in western Kenya |
Authors: | WaxmanMichael J., Paul Muganda Jane Carter, Neford Ongaro |
Keywords: | HIV care human immunodeficiency |
Issue Date: | Sep-2008 |
Publisher: | Ampath |
Abstract: | The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pan- demic in sub-Saharan Africa and other high prevalence regions continues to overwhelm health care systems. While there has been a global response to improve the delivery of antiretroviral therapy in these high prevalence regions, there are few models that have developed an adequate plan to deal with HIV specifically in resource-poor emergency department settings. In this manuscript, we report on the experience scaling up HIV care at one emergency depart- ment in a large referral hospital located in western Kenya. Specifically, we describe how rapid bedside HIV testing helps to narrow the differential diagnosis of disease processes in acute care patients and how HIV screening of patients discharged from the emergency department can detect HIV-infected individuals |
URI: | http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3102 |
Appears in Collections: | School of Medicine |
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