LOST TO FOLLOW UP IN CARE OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV IN A TERTIARY HOSPITAL IN GHANA

• At: AbuDhabi (United Arab Emirates) (2019)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-PPR-005
• By: NELSON, Frempomaa (KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL, DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, Ghana)
• Co-author(s): Frempomaa Nelson: DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL, Accra, Ghana
  Vincent Ganu: DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL, Accra, Ghana
  Roy lambert: DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL, korle bu, Ghana
  Peter Puplampu: DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE, University of Ghana School of Medicine and Dentistry, Accra, Ghana
  Rafik Okine: School of Public Health, , University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
  Panyin Anto-Berko: Department of Pharmacy Practice, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science& Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  The success of any antiretroviral therapy programme is highly dependent on the retention of the patients in care. However, high rates of loss to follow up of patients in care is a threat to the success of the programme. 

  Methods

  Phone interviews were conducted for these patients to ascertain predictors and reasons for being lost to follow
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