Abstract: Background: Quantification of eye diseases among HIV-infected patients is a step towards the provision of services that improve the quality of life. Traditionally, HIV care was founded on principles of patients' survival and prolonging life expectancy. These principles of HIV medicine practice have shifted from survival to improving the quality of life among the affected population. More HIV patients are living long enough to experience the ocular toxicity of antiretroviral drugs and age-related eye conditions. Co-morbidity of HIV infection with Non-communicable diseases like hypertension, diabetes, and cancers, among others, are contributing to damaging effects of the eye. Since there were no recent equivalent studies carried out in a Kenyan urban clinic, we selected this study to quantify eye diseases among this population. HIV-infected Urban dwellers have additional risk factors for the development of eye diseases like lifestyle and economic activities among many other factors.........
Key Word: Ocular Disease; Adult; HIV; Kenya;
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