A high occurrence of late presenters and missed HIV diagnosis in clinical care in Sweden

Purpose of the study: To identify and predict factors for late HIV diagnosis in Sweden Methods: In a prospective study involving 12 Swedish HIV clinics, all newly diagnosed patients, >18 years, are invited to participate to explore what characterize a late presenters (LP), defined by CD4 <350 and/or AIDS diagnosis, from those diagnosed earlier. Demographic and biomedical data are collected as well as HIV-related symptoms and AIDS diagnosis. Four questionnaires are completed; medical history, psychosocial history, general knowledge of HIV and barriers to testing. Enrolment is Oct 2009—Sept 2011. The abstract is a survey of the first 100 patients. Supplement: Abstracts of the Tenth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-13-S4-info.pdf Conference: Tenth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection 7-11 November 2010 Glasgow, UK (Published: 8 November 2010) doi:10.1186/1758-2652-13-S4-P169 Cite this article as: Brannstrom et al.: A high occurrence of late presenters and missed HIV diagnosis in clinical care in Sweden. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2010 13(Suppl 4):P169. Full text: PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3112948/