Table 3 Categories for ART switch among young people living with HIV attending HIV care services in the Hannan Crusaid HIV Centre in Cape town South Africa, stratified by period of starting ART (< 2010 vs 2010 +)
Reasons for switching ART | Before 2010 | 2010 + | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|
Freq (%) | Freq (%) | Freq (%) | |
Formulation switch e.g. TDF/3TC to TDF/FTC | 3 (1.0) | 165 (52.2) | 168 (27.8) |
Side effects | 101 (34.9) | 21 (6.7) | 122 (20.0) |
Virological Failure | 55 (19.0) | 53 (16.8) | 108 (17.8) |
Programmatic e.g. switch from d4T to TDF | 38 (13.2) | 32 (10.1) | 70 (11.6) |
Pregnancy | 54 (18.7) | 13 (4.1) | 67 (11.1) |
Regimen simplification | 6 (2.1) | 22 (7.0) | 28 (4.6) |
Tuberculosis | 19 (6.6) | 8 (2.5) | 27 (4.5) |
Defaulted | 10 (3.5) | 0 (0.0) | 10 (1.7) |
Psychosis | 1 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.2) |
Hepatitis B | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | 1 (0.2) |
Reason not specified | 2 (0.7) | 1 (0.3) | 3 (0.5) |
Total | 289 | 316 | 605 |