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Initiation of antiretrovirals in critically ill patients

Jacqui Venturas
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia | Vol 17, No 1 | a546 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/22201173.2011.10872758 | © 2011 Jacqui Venturas | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 03 November 2025 | Published: 01 January 2011

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Jacqui Venturas,, South Africa

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Abstract

UNAIDS estimated that, at the end of 2009, there were 33.4 million people worldwide who were living with HIV or AIDS, with an estimated 5.6 million of these people in South Africa. Although South Africa has the largest antiretroviral programme in the world, it also has the highest incidence of infected patients and access to treatment is low. At the end of 2009, only 37% of those infected with the virus in South Africa were receiving treatment for HIV according to the latest WHO guidelines.1

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anti-retrovirals; critically-ill patients

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