Publications by authors named "Dorothy Njeru"
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- Children under 5 years, especially those with HIV not on antiretroviral treatment, face significantly higher mortality rates compared to older age groups, despite receiving ART.
- From October 2020 to September 2022, annual death rates among infants aged <1 year and children aged 1-4 years on ART were 4.9% and 2.5%, respectively, which are notably higher than those for individuals aged 5 and older.
- Improving access to and quality of HIV health services for young children, in line with WHO recommendations, is essential for addressing the poor health outcomes they currently face.
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) supports more than 350,000 people on lifesaving HIV treatment in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda through funding from the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResistance to efavirenz and nevirapine has not been associated with mutations at position 138 of reverse transcriptase. In an evaluation of virologic suppression rates in PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief) clinics in Kenya among patients on first-line therapy (RV288), 63% (617/975) of randomly selected patients on antiretroviral therapy were suppressed (HIV RNA<400 copies/ml). Among those with non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance (n = 101), 14 (13.
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