Archives of Infectious Diseases & Therapy(AIDT)

Department of Statistics, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Predictors of CD4 cell count and Disclosure of HIV status among HIV-positive Adults under HAART in Amhara Region, North-west Ethiopia
  Author(s): Abdela Assefa and Awoke Seyoum Tegegne*
  
  Background: There were an estimated 37.7 million people living with HIV in 2020. For more than two decades, HIV/ AIDS has been a major health concern in Sub-Saharan African countries. The main objective of this study was identifying predictors associated with HIV disease disclosure status and CD4 cell count change among adults receiving HAART. Methods: A retrospective cohort study design was conducted on 300 randomly selected HIV infected adults in the ART clinic at Felege Hiwot Hospital during the study period. Three different models were used for the data analysis namely; a generalized linear mixed-effects model for the longitudinal data, a binary logistic regression model for the binary outcome data, and joint modeling of the two responses linked through a random intercept. Quasi-Poisson mixed effect model was a final model to analyze lon.. Read More»
  

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