: PREVALENCE OF RENAL DYSFUNCTION AMONG HIV PATIENTS ATTENDING KABUTARE DISTRICT HOSPITAL

Abstract

The research entitled “Prevalence of renal dysfunction among HIV patients’’. The use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) led to a remarkable improvement in survival and reduction of opportunistic infections worldwide. The advancement in prognosis has changed the leading causes of mortality in HIV infected patients from infectious to non-infectious causes with kidney disease increasingly emerging as being significant. Nevertheless, the use of ART increased the life expectancy of people living with HIV but was found to increase the risk of having kidney dysfunction. Though 18.2 million people worldwide were receiving antiretroviral therapy by 2016; only 40% of HIV-infected persons in sub-Saharan Africa received antiretroviral therapy as of 2014 (Solomon, et al., 2014).