The health related quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa - a literature review and focus group study

Table 1 Overview of studies presenting preference based HRQL weights for HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

Author	Setting	AIDS population	Sub-analyses	VAS¹⁾	TTO	SG	EQ-5D index
Hughes	South Africa	WHO stages 3 or 4	General community	0.80
(2004)	(Cape Town)	or CD4<200	Awaiting ART	0.60
Jelsma	South Africa	WHO stages 3 or 4	General community	0.80
(2005)	(Cape Town)	or CD4<200	Awaiting ART	0.62
			ART (1 month)	0.70
			ART (3 months)	0.71
			ART (6 months)	0.74
			ART (12 months)	0.76
Louwagie	South Africa	WHO stage 4 or	ART (own health)	0.66			0.80
(2007)	(Free State)	CD4<200	Awaiting ART	0.62			0.69
Lara	Uganda	WHO stages	Own health (ART and non ART)	0.50 and 0.55
(2008)	(Entebbe)	2, 3 or 4	WHO stage 2 (ART and non ART)	0.59 and 0.63	0.75 and 0.78	0.50 and 0.51
			WHO stage 3 (ART and non ART)	0.39 and 0.39	0.49 and 0.52	0.34 and 0.39
			WHO stage 4 (ART and non ART)	0.17 and 0.15	0.20 and 0.27	0.19 and 0.19
			Own health reassessed (ART and non ART)	0.78 and 0.66

1) VAS scores transformed from 0-100 scale to 0-1 scale to improve comparability.

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