Priscilla Medeiros, Laura Warren, Mina Kazemi, Notisha Massaquoi, Stephanie Smith, Wangari Tharao, Lena Serghides, Carmen H Logie, Abigail Kroch, Ann N Burchell, Alexandra de Pokomandy, Angela Kaida, Mona Loutfy
BACKGROUND: The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is home to 39% of Canada's population living with HIV. To identify gaps in access and engagement in care and treatment, we assessed the care cascade of women living with HIV (WLWH) in the GTA versus the rest of Ontario and Canada (in this case: Quebec and British Columbia). METHODS: We analyzed 2013-2015 self-reported baseline data from the Canadian HIV Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study for six care cascade stages: linked to care, retained in care, initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART), currently on ART, ART adherence (≥90%), and undetectable (<50 copies/mL)...
November 21, 2022: International Journal of STD & AIDS