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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2014 Dec 15;67(5):547–554. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000360

Table 3.

Kaposi sarcoma incidence rates in patients on ART in resource-rich and resource-limited regions.

Authors Cohort Country Calendar
years
Patients
on ART
KS incidence rate
per 100, 000 pys
Resource-rich regions N Children Adults

Ledergerber
199931
SHCS Switzerland 1995 – 1999 2,410 NR 140
Clifford 200514 SHCS Switzerland 1985 – 2003 NR NR 109
Franceschi
200811
SHCS Switzerland 1984 – 2006 NR NR 130
Suárez-García
201313
CoRIS/
CoRIS-MD
Spain 1997 – 2008 NR NR 199
Carrieri 200332 DMI-2 France 1996 – 2001 2,589 NR 122
Lacombe
201316
FHDH-ANRS
CO4
France, French
overseas
territories
1992 – 2009 40,083 NR 137
Mocroft 200033 EuroSIDA Europe, Israel 1994 – 1999 NR NR 700
Lodi 201029 * CASCADE Europe, Australia,
Canada
1986 – 2006 4,199 NR 358
Yanik 201315 CNICS USA 1996 – 2011 11,485 NR 304

Resource-limited regions

Fink 201112 CCASAnet/
IeDEA
Caribbean,
Central and South
America
2007 – 2009 3,372 NR 450
Asiimwe 20129 HBAC Uganda 2003 – 2008 1,121 NR 340
Martin 20128 IeDEA Uganda 2008 – 2011 NR NR 201
Martin 20128 IeDEA Kenya 2008 – 2011 NR NR 270
Current study IeDEA Southern Africa 2004 – 2010 173,245 59 173

Adapted from Semeere et al 2012.4 CASCADE, Concerted Action of Seroconversion to AIDS and Death in Europe; CCASAnet, Caribbean, Central and South American network for HIV Research; CNICS, Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) Network of Integrated Clinical Systems; CoRIS/CoRIS-MD, Spanish cohorts of naïve HIV-infected patients; DMI-2, longitudinal database of HIV-infected individuals followed at Nice University Hospital, France; EuroSIDA, Collection of European cohort studies; FHDH-ANRS CO4, The French Hospital Database on HIV; HBAC, Home-Based AIDS Care programme; IeDEA, International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS; SHCS, Swiss HIV Cohort Study. Estimates from different studies are adjusted for different variables. ART, antiretroviral therapy; NR, not reported; pys, person-years.

*

Includes only men who have sex with men.