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EFFECTS OF NATIONAL ADOPTION OF TREAT-ALL GUIDELINES ON PRE-ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (ART) CD4 TESTING AND VIRAL LOAD MONITORING AFTER ART INITIATION: A REGRESSION DISCONTINUITY ANALYSIS
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City University of New York. Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health. New York, NY, USA.
City University of New York. Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health. New York, NY, USA.
University of Bern. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine. Bern, Switzerland.
University of Bern. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine. Bern, Switzerland.
Indiana University. School of Medicine. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Indiana University. R. M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Department of Biostatistics. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
University of Bordeaux. French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development. Bordeaux, France.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán". Departamento de Infectología. Mexico City, Mexico.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em DST/AIDS. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
National Center for Global Health and Medicine. AIDS Clinical Center. Tokyo, Japan.
Centre National de Reference en Matière de VIH/SIDA. Bujumbura, Burundi.
City University of New York. Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health. New York, NY, USA.
City University of New York. Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health. New York, NY, USA.
University of Bern. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine. Bern, Switzerland.
University of Bern. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine. Bern, Switzerland.
Indiana University. School of Medicine. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Indiana University. R. M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Department of Biostatistics. Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
University of Bordeaux. French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development. Bordeaux, France.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Department of Epidemiology. Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán". Departamento de Infectología. Mexico City, Mexico.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Laboratório de Pesquisa Clínica em DST/AIDS. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
National Center for Global Health and Medicine. AIDS Clinical Center. Tokyo, Japan.
Centre National de Reference en Matière de VIH/SIDA. Bujumbura, Burundi.
City University of New York. Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health. New York, NY, USA.
Abstract
Background: The World Health Organization's Treat-All guidance recommends CD4 testing before initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART), and routine viral load (VL) monitoring (over CD4 monitoring) for patients on ART.
Methods: We used regression discontinuity analyses to estimate changes in CD4 testing and VL monitoring among 547 837 ART-naive patients enrolling in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care during 2006-2018 at 225 clinics in 26 countries where Treat-All policies were adopted. We examined CD4 testing within 12 months before and VL monitoring 6 months after ART initiation among adults (≥20 years), adolescents (10-19 years), and children (0-9 years) in low/lower-middle-income countries (L/LMICs) and high/upper-middle-income countries (H/UMICs).
Results: Treat-All adoption led to an immediate decrease in pre-ART CD4 testing among adults in L/LMICs, from 57.0% to 48.1% (-8.9 percentage points [pp]; 95% CI: -11.0, -6.8), and a small increase in H/UMICs, from 90.1% to 91.7% (+1.6pp; 95% CI: 0.2, 3.0), with no changes among adolescents or children; decreases in pre-ART CD4 testing accelerated after Treat-All adoption in L/LMICs. In L/LMICs, VL monitoring after ART initiation was low among all patients in L/LMICs before Treat-All; while there was no immediate change at Treat-All adoption, VL monitoring trends significantly increased afterwards. VL monitoring increased among adults immediately after Treat-All adoption, from 58.2% to 61.1% (+2.9pp; 95% CI: 0.5, 5.4), with no significant changes among adolescents/children.
Conclusions: While on-ART VL monitoring has improved in L/LMICs, Treat-All adoption has accelerated and disparately worsened suboptimal pre-ART CD4 monitoring, which may compromise care outcomes for individuals with advanced HIV.
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