Southern Africa region (IeDEA-SA)
Journal articles published

  • Nash, D. et al.: Long-term immunologic response to antiretroviral therapy in low-income countries: a collaborative analysis of prospective studies. AIDS. 2008 Nov 12;22(17):2291-302. Abstract

  • Keiser, O. et al.: Public-Health and individual approaches to antiretrovviral therapy: township South Africa and Switzerland compared. PLoS Med. 5(7): e148 (2008).  PDF

  • Boulle, A. et al. Substitutions due to antiretroviral toxicity or contraindication in the first 3 years of antiretroviral therapy in a large South African cohort. Antivir Ther. 12(5): 753-60 (2007). Abstract / PDF

  • ART-LINC of IeDEA collaboration: Early loss of HIV-infected patients on potent antiretroviral therapy programmes in lower-income countries. WHO Bulletin, Vol 86, Nr 7, July 2008, 559-567 - Abstract / PDF
  • Brinkhof, MWG and Egger, M: Reply to Colebunders and Caluwaerts. CID, 2008:46 (1May): 1482. No abstract available
  • Colebunders, R and Caluwaerts, S: Determination of the Incidence of Tuberculosis in Low-Income Countries. CID, 2008:46 (1May): 1482. No abstract available
  • ART-LINC Collaboration: Antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings 1996 to 2006: patient characteristics, treatment regimens and monitoring in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. Trop. Med. Int. Health. July 2008; 13(7) :1-10. Abstract/PDF
  • ART-LINC Collaboration. Gender and the use of potent antiretroviral treatment among adults in resource-constrained settings: Findings from a multi-centre observational cohort. Journal of Women's Health. January 1, 2008, 17(1): 47-55. Abstract/PDF
  • ART-LINC Collaboration. Tuberculosis following initiation of antiretroviral therapy in low-income and high-income countries. Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Dec 1;45(11):1518-21. Abstract/PDF
  • ART-LINC Collaboration. Discordant responses to potent antiretroviral treatment in previously naive HIV-1-infected adults initiating treatment in resource-constrained countries: the antiretroviral therapy in low-income countries (ART-LINC) collaboration J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2007;45(1):52-9. Abstract/PDF
  • Brinkhof MWG, Egger M, Schechter M, Dabis F, on behalf of the ARTLINC collaboration of the International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA). Mortality of HIV-infected patients in low-income countries (letter). Lancet 2006; 368: 2207-8.
  • ART-LINC Collaboration. One-year mortality of HIV-1-infected patients starting potent antiretroviral therapy in low and high income countries: Comparative analysis of collaborative databases. Lancet 2006;367:817-24. Abstract/PDF
  • ART-LINC Collaboration. Antiretroviral Therapy in Lower Income Countries (ART-LINC): International collaboration of treatment cohorts. Int J Epidemiol. 2005 Oct;34(5):979-86. Abstratc/PDF


Submitted

  • M. Brinkhof et al.: Mortality of HIV-infected Patients starting Antiretroviral Therapy: Comparisons with the General Population in Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Submitted to PLoS
  • O. Keiser et al.: Switching to second-line antiretroviral therapy and mortality in resource-limited settings: Collaborative analysis of treatment programmes in Africa, Asia and Latin America . Rejected by Lancet
  • M. Forster et al.: Electronic medical record systems, data quality and loss to follow-up: survey of antiretroviral therapy programmes in resource-limited settings. Bulletin of the World Health Organization; December 2008, 86 (12): In press