Implementation of Mental Health Service Has an Impact on Retention in HIV Care: A Nested Case-Control Study in a Japanese HIV Care Facility

摘要: Background Poor retention in the care of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is associated adverse patient outcomes such as antiretroviral therapy failure and death. Therefore, appropriate case management required for better retention; however, which intervention important has not been fully investigated. Meanwhile, Japan, each local government to organize mental health services HIV so that a manager at an facility can utilize them, but little known about association between implementation loss follow-up. we investigated by nested case-control study.