Uganda: Majority of patients lost to follow-up still alive one year late - study

A study of patients who failed to return to their HIV clinic in Uganda found that the majority were still alive after one year, contrary to assumptions, and in many cases had either transferred to other clinics or faced transport and access difficulties in getting to the clinic, according to research by Elvin Geng and colleagues in a paper published in advance online by the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.