Bethelehem Newayeselassie, Dr Aster Tsegaye, Prof Beyene Petros
Antiretroviral monitoring relay on %CD4+ T-cell values particularly in pediatrics. In Ethiopia despite extensive expansion of care and treatment and progress in ART monitoring of HIV infected pediatrics HIV/AIDS management remains severely limited. The limitation of the existing double tube SP FACSCount system, for not providing %CD4+ T-cell count, was one of the challenges in pediatric HIV monitoring in resource limited settings. As a result, clinicians in Ethiopia have been using the back-calculation method to obtain %CD4+ T-cell values although the clinical reference of the...
Antiretroviral monitoring relay on %CD4+ T-cell values particularly in pediatrics. In Ethiopia despite extensive expansion of care and treatment an...