%0 Journal Article
%T Initial antiretroviral therapy in a 20-year observational cohort of patients followed at a reference center in the City of S£¿o Paulo, Brazil
%A Ruiz
%A Emily A. C.
%A Ramalho
%A Marta
%A Tancredi
%A Mariza V.
%A Moatti
%A Jean P.
%A Monteiro
%A Ana L. C.
%A Fonsi
%A Mylva
%A Chauveau
%A Julien
%J Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
%D 2011
%I Associa??o Brasileira de P¨®s -Gradua??o em Sa¨²de Coletiva
%R 10.1590/S1415-790X2011000100008
%X introduction: production and free universal access to art for patients with hiv/aids were responsible for a major fall in morbidity-mortality in brazil. objective: to describe antiretroviral treatment at the s£¿o paulo std/aids training and reference center. methods: cross-sectional analysis of the characteristics of the first treatment with antiretroviral drugs of a retrospective cohort of patients 13 years and over, enrolled at the reference center, 1985-2005, described by frequency tables and graphs. results: 4,191 patients were described. the most frequent initiation period was 1999-2003; 82.7% of patients were treatment na£¿ve. monotherapy prevailed until 1995, the peak of double therapy was 1996-98, and 1999-2005 was characterized by triple therapy. regarding triple therapy, regimens with protease inhibitors accounted for 1,462 (34.9%) of all first prescriptions. the combination azt, 3tc and efv was the most frequently prescribed regimen (47.4%) in 2005. conclusions: this descriptive study may enable more in depth analyses on the factors involved in the treatment patients with hiv/aids.
%K antiretroviral treatment
%K treatment
%K hiv
%K aids
%K epidemiology
%K art.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1415-790X2011000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en