Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Aboriginal status is a prognostic factor for mortality among antiretroviral naïve HIV-positive individuals first initiating HAART. | AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Open Access Aboriginal status is a prognostic factor for mortality among antiretroviral naive HIV-positive individuals first initiating HAART Viviane D Lima1 Patricia Kretz1 Anita Palepu2 Simon Bonner1 Thomas Kerr1 David Moore1 Mark Daniel3 Julio SG Montaner1 2 and Robert S Hogg 1 2 Address 1British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS St. Paul s Hospital Vancouver Canada - Departments of Medicine and or Healthcare and Epidemiology Faculty of Medicine University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada and 3Département de médecine sociale et preventive Université de Montréal et Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l Université de Montréal Québec Canada Email Viviane D Lima - vivianed@ Patricia Kretz - pkretz@ Anita Palepu - anita@ Simon Bonner - sbonner@ Thomas Kerr - tkerr@ David Moore - dmoore@ Mark Daniel - Julio SG Montaner - jmontaner@ Robert S Hogg - bobhogg@ Corresponding author Published 24 May 2006 Received 29 September 2005 AIDS Research and Therapy 2006 3 14 doi 1742-6405-3-14 Accepted 24 May 2006 This article is available from http content 3 1 14 2006 Lima et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Although the impact of Aboriginal status on HIV incidence HIV disease progression and access to treatment has been investigated previously little is known about the relationship between Aboriginal ethnicity and outcomes associated with highly active antiretroviral therapy HAART . We undertook the present analysis to determine if Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal persons respond
