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This article is part of the supplement: Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection .

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O122 Prevalence of drug interactions between antiretroviral and co-administered drugs at the Moi teaching and referral hospital (Ampath), Eldoret, Kenya

GK Kigen1, S Kimaiyo2, DJ Back1, SE Gibbons1, E Sang2, IG Edwards1, A Owen1 and SH Khoo1

University of Liverpool, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Liverpool, UK

Moi University School of Medicine, AMPATH, Eldoret, Kenya

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from Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection
Glasgow, UK. 9–13 November 2008

Journal of the International AIDS Society 2008, 11(Suppl 1):O7doi:10.1186/1758-2652-11-S1-O7

Published: 10 November 2008

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Studies in developed countries have shown that drug interactions (DI) involving antiretroviral therapy (ARV) are frequent and under-recognized. No similar work has been carried out in developing countries, where use of fixed dose combinations (FDCs) limits the scope for dose modification.


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