Evaluation of treatment response, drug resistance and HIV-1 variability among adolescents on first- and second-line antiretroviral therapy: a study protocol for a prospective observational study in the centre region of Cameroon (EDCTP READY-study)

• Main Authors: Joseph Fokam (Author), Maria Mercedes Santoro (Author), Desire Takou (Author), Anne-Esthe (Author), Paul Koki Ndombo (Author), Nelly Kamgaing (Author), Cedric Kamta (Author), Andre Essiane (Author), Samuel Martin Sosso (Author), Alexis Ndjolo (Author), Vittorio Colizzi (Author), Carlo-Federico Perno (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) alone has nine out of every 10 children living with HIV globally and monitoring in this setting remains suboptimal, even as these children grow older. With scalability of antiretroviral therapy (ART), several HIV-infected children are growing towards adol...