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The Leaky HIV Treatment Cascade
The cascade of HIV care proceeds from testing and clinical staging to ART eligibility, receipt of ART, and successful, uninterrupted treatment. Each step opens the possibility to losing patients to follow-up, which has been documented by a number of studies.25-27
Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy; LTF, loss to follow-up.
