Antiretroviral treatment outcomes among adults offered clinical care in Ghana: a multicenter retrospective study

The antiretroviral therapy outcomes study conducted in Ghana is a multicentre retrospective study among HIV-infected adults offered clinical care at four health facilities in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Demographic and clinical data of patients offered antiretroviral therapy between January 2008 and December 2012 were reviewed. Data were gathered from each patient's hospital records for 36 months beginning from the first day of therapy initiation. The main objective of the study was to investigate treatment outcomes of individual patients after 36 months of therapy. Outcome measures included retention in care, loss to follow-up, mortality, treatment failure and immunologic response to antiretoviral therapy. For patients who were lost to follow up within the study period the duration on treatment before being lost to follow up was also investigated. Data extraction process was started January 2015 and completed in October 2015. Data cleaning and validation was done in July 2016 <br>