Pre-ART Mortality and its Determinants in a Tanzania Public Driven HIV Care Program

Limited information is available on mortality experience of HIV infected patients prior to the start of antiretroviral therapy (ART), as monitoring of HIV care services has mainly focused on ART initiation and subsequent patient survival. By 2013, Tanzania 1,209 health facilities with HIV services, and 800,000 patients accessing ART

Objective

The aim of this write up was to assess the level of mortality and its determinants among HIV infected adults prior to ART initiation.