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Session 131  Poster Abstracts
Treatment Outcomes in Scale-up Programs
Monday, 1-4 pm
Room: Hall B
      812 When to Start ART in Resource-limited Settings
Rochelle Walensky*1,2,3, L Wolf1, R Wood4, K Freedberg1,2,5,6, N Martinson7,8, D Paltiel9, X Anglaret10,11, M Fofana1, H Ribaudo5, and E Losina1,3,6
1Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Boston, US; 2Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA, US; 3Brigham and Women`s Hosp, Boston, MA, US; 4Univ of Cape Town, South Africa; 5Harvard Sch of Publ Hlth, Boston, MA, US; 6Boston Univ Sch of Publ Hlth, MA, US; 7Perinatal HIV Res Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa; 8Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore, MD, US; 9Yale Univ Sch of Publ Hlth, New Haven, CT, US; 10Prgm PACCI, Abidjan Côte d`Ivoire; and 11Univ Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France
      813 Evaluation of the Adult 2006 World Health Organization HIV/AIDS Clinical Staging in Predicting Initiation of ART in Uganda
Steven Baveewo*1, F Ssali2, C Karamagi1, and E Katabira1
1Makerere Univ Med Sch, Kampala, Uganda and 2Joint Clinical Res Ctr, Kampala, Uganda
      814 Normalization of CD4 Count in Thai Patients Started NNRTI-based Regimens at Low Nadir CD4 Count
Tanakorn Apornpong*1, N Phanuphak1, S Limpongsanurak2, W Luesomboon3, A Tangsathapornpong4, N Singhakovinta5, C Viravasiri6, P Toro7, E Abrams7, and P Phanuphak1
1Thai Red Cross AIDS Res Ctr, Bangkok; 2King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hosp, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Queen Sawangwattana Memorial Hosp, Chonburi, Thailand; 4Thammasat Univ Hosp, Bangkok, Thailand; 5Queen Sirikit Hosp, Chonburi, Thailand; 6Police Gen Hosp, Bangkok, Thailand; and 7Columbia Univ, New York, NY, US
      815 Evaluation of Outcomes in a Large HIV Comprehensive Scale-up Program: The Harvard PEPFAR Nigeria
Ernest Ekong*1, S Meloni2, D Onwujekwe3, C Okany4, I Adewole5, R Nkado6, W Gashau7, J Idoko8, R Murphy9, and P Kanki2
1APIN Plus/Harvard PEPFAR Nigeria, Lagos; 2Harvard-PEPFAR Prgm, Nigeria and Harvard Sch of Publ Hlth, Boston, MA, US; 3Nigerian Inst of Med Res, Lagos; 4Lagos Univ Teaching Hosp, Nigeria; 5Univ Coll Hosp, Ibadan, Nigeria; 668 Military Hosp, Lagos, Nigeria; 7Univ Maiduguri Teaching Hosp, Nigeria; 8Jos Univ Teaching Hosp, Nigeria; and 9Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL, US
      816 Initial Treatment Outcomes from a Rural-based ART Scale-up Program in East Africa: The UARTO Cohort
Jeffrey Martin*1, N Emenyonu1, M Bwana2, I Andia2, J Bennett1, H Cao3, P Hunt1, R Harrigan4, S Deeks1, D Bangsberg1, and East Africa IeDEA Consortium
1Univ of California, San Francisco, US; 2Mbarara Univ of Sci and Tech, Uganda; 3California Dept of Hlth Svcs, Richmond, US; and 4BC Ctr for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada
      817 Maximum Capacity of Restoration of CD4 Counts Is Lower in HIV-1-infected Patients from Sub-Saharan Africa during the First Months of cART: ATHENA Cohort
A Kesselring1, Luuk Gras*1, F Wit2,3, P Reiss2,3, and F de Wolf1
1HIV Monitoring Fndn, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 2Academic Med Ctr, Univ of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and 3Ctr for Poverty-Related Communicable Diseases, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
      818 Learning Curve: Increasing Benefit of HAART according to Year of Initiation in a Middle-income Country
Carlos Beltran*, D Gallardo, M Wolff, J Arancibia, C Gallo, M Ayala, I Becerra, S Karelovic, and Chilean AIDS Cohort
Chilean AIDS Cohort
      819 Mortality of HIV-1-infected Patients Starting ART in Sub-Saharan Africa: The IeDEA Prognostic Model
Margaret May*1, A Boulle2, E Messou3, H Tweya4, L Myer2, R Wood2, J Sterne1, M Schechter5, M Egger6, and ART-LINC and International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Southern and W. Africa
1Univ of Bristol, UK; 2Univ of Cape Town, South Africa; 3CeDReS, ACONDA, Abidjan, Côte d`Ivoire; 4Lighthouse Clin, Lilongwe, Malawi; 5Federal Univ of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and 6Univ of Berne, Switzerland
      820 Time Trends in Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients Starting ART in Lower-income Countries: The ART-LINC Collaboration of IeDEA
O Keiser1, K Anastos2, E Balestre3, A Boulle4, P Braitstein5, M Brinkhof1, E Sprinz6, L Myer4, N Kumarasamy7, Francois Dabis*3, and the ART-LINC collaboration of IeDEA
1Univ of Bern, Switzerland; 2Lincoln Hosp, New York, NY, US; 3Univ Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France; 4Univ of Cape Town, South Africa; 5Moi Univ, Eldoret, Kenya; 6Hosp de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil; and 7YRGCARE, Chennai, India
      821 Virologic Outcomes and ART Adherence in Adolescents Compared with Adults in Southern Africa
Jean Nachega*1, M Hislop2, D Dowdy1, M Cotton3, L Regensberg2, R Chaisson1, and G Maartens4
1Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, US; 2Aid for AIDS Disease Mgmt Prgm, Cape Town, South Africa; 3Univ of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa; and 4Univ of Cape Town, South Africa
      822 2-Year Virologic Outcomes of an Alternative AIDS Care Model: Evaluation of a Peer Health Worker and Nurse-staffed Community-based Program in Uganda
S Alamo1, Larry Chang*2, S Guma1, J Christopher1, T Suntoke3, R Omastete1, J Montis1, T Quinn2,3, M Juncker1, and S Reynolds2,3
1Reach Out Mbuya Parish HIV/AIDS Initiative, Kampala, Uganda; 2Johns Hopkins Med Inst, Baltimore, MD, US; and 3NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, US
      823 Immunologic Benefits of Complete vs Partial Virologic Suppression in Patients Initiating ART in Gugulethu, South Africa
Elena Losina*1,2,3, Y Chang2, R Kaplan4, E Campbell4, R Walensky1,2,5,6, K Freedberg2,3,5,6, and R Wood4
1Brigham and Women`s Hosp, Boston, MA, US; 2Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Boston, US; 3Boston Univ Sch of Publ Hlth, MA, US; 4Univ of Cape Town, South Africa; 5Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA, US; and 6Harvard Sch of Publ Hlth, Boston, MA, US
      824 Predictors of Clinical and Immunological Outcomes among HIV-infected Subjects on ART in Tanzania
Guerino Chalamilla*1, M Mwanyika-Sando2, C Hawkins1, S Unni1, S Kaaya2, A Kibao3, D Mtasiwa3, and W Fawzi1
1Harvard Sch of Publ Hlth, Boston, MA, US; 2Muhimbili Univ of Hlth and Allied Sci, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and 3Dar es Salaam City Council, Tanzania
      825 Risk Factors for Discordant Responses to HAART at Themba Lethu Clinic, Johannesburg, South Africa
Daniel Westreich*1, B Malope2, P MacPhail2, S Nagar2, A Van Rie1, and I Sanne2
1Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sch of Publ Hlth, US and 2Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
      826 Effect of Early Immunovirologic Discordant Responses on Mortality in Naïve HIV-1-infected Adults Initiating Treatment in Resource-constrained Countries
Suely Tuboi*1, A Pacheco2, P Braitstein3, M May4, R Stone1, E Sprinz5, D Nash6, R Wood7, L Harrison1, M Schechter8, and ART-LINC of IeDEA
1Univ of Pittsburgh, PA, US; 2Oswaldo Cruz Fndn, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 3Indiana Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis, US and Moi Univ Sch of Med, Eldoret, Kenya; 4Univ of Bristol, UK; 5Federal Univ of Rio Grande do Sul, Porte Alegre, Brazil; 6Columbia Univ, New York, NY, US; 7Univ of Cape Town, South Africa; and 8Federal Univ of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
      827 Determinants of Knowledge of Access to ART in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Till Barnighausen*1,2, F Tanser1, G Cooke1,3, and M L Newell1,4
1Africa Ctr for Hlth and Population Studies, Univ of KwaZulu Natal, Somkhele, South Africa; 2Harvard Sch of Publ Hlth, Boston, MA, US; 3Imperial Coll, London, UK; and 4Inst of Child Hlth, London, UK
      828 Novel Modular Education of Inpatients with AIDS in a Resource-poor National AIDS Treatment Centre: Impact of Learning Outcomes on Adherence to HAART and Cotrimoxazole Prophylaxis, Development of Opportunistic Infections, and Mortality
Olusegun Busari*, G Oligbu, O Busari, and HIV Study Group
Federal Med Ctr, Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria
      829 Changes in Depression and Daily Functioning with Initiation of ART in HIV-infected Adults in Rural Uganda
Naomi Bock*1, C W Lee1, S Bechange2, J Moore1, K Khana2, W Were2, R King2, J Mermin2, F Kaharuza2, and R Bunnell2
1CDC, Atlanta, GA, US and 2CDC Uganda, Entebbe
      830 Rapid Implementation of More Efficacious ART Regimens for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Rwanda
Landry Tsague*1, G Tene1, C Adje-Toure1, S Koblavi1, V Mugisha1, J Rubin1, G Vandebriel1, R Sahabo1, F Tsiouris2, and E Abrams2
1Columbia Univ, Intl Ctr for AIDS Care and Treatment Prgms, Kigali, Rwanda and 2Columbia Univ Mailman Sch of Publ Hlth, New York, NY, US