- Title
- Prevalence of Micronutrient Deficiency among People Living with HIV in Selected Rural Districts of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
- Creator
- Nxasana, Ntombozuko
- Creator
- Oladimeji, Elizabeth Kelechi
- Creator
- Pulido-Estra, Guillero-Alfredo
- Creator
- Apalata, Ruffin Teke
- Description
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) leads to immune suppression, and micronutrients play vital roles in human immune responses. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of viral load suppression in adult HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) on micronutrient deficiency and its prevalence in selected rural districts in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. This cross-sectional study was conducted from February 2019 to February 2021 among 50 consenting HIV-infected patients attending community health centers within the three selected districts. The data were analysed with ArcGIS v.10.8 to create geospatial maps; the Global Positioning System (GPS) for analysis and presentation, and SPSS version 25 for inferential statistics involving the t-test and Fisher's exact test...
- Date
- 2023
- Subject
- Prevalence
- Subject
- Micronutrient deficiency
- Subject
- Viral load suppression
- Subject
- Geospatial
- Subject
- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- South Africa
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/13615
- Identifier
- vital:78965
- Identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15133017
- Language
- English
- Relation
- nutrients
- Relation
- Nxasana, N.; Oladimeji, K.E.; Pulido-Estrada, G.-A.; Apalata, T.R. Prevalence of Micronutrient Deficiency among People Living with HIV in Selected Rural Districts of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Nutrients 2023, 15, 3017. https://doi.org/10.3390/ nu15133017
- Relation
- nutrients 15 vol 13 1 11 2023 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15133017
- Rights
- ©2023, authors
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