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“an encouraging trend”

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Listed by Hankins (2013) · Otte et al. (2022)

In the literature

In a post-hoc analysis conducted by Reck et al., an encouraging trend toward prolonged median OS was observed (NE vs. 17.5 months, HR = 0.39 (95% CI, 0.14-1.07)), alongside a statistically significant improvement in median PFS (9.7 vs. 6.1 months, HR = 0.42 (95% CI, 0.22-0.80)) when comparing ABCP with BCP.
While it displays an encouraging trend, using such wealth-based indicators may skew our assessment of distributional equity: adding the other demographical, social, and economic factors through the VERSE Equity Toolkit (detailed in the Methods) brings the concentration indices back in positive values, highlighting the adverse effect of compounding disadvantages on coverage.
Although only slightly more than half of 4,000 children targeted for ART [ 6 ] were being treated by the end of 2006, the accelerating relative utilization rates for children below 15 years is an encouraging trend necessary to overcome underutilization due to inadequate access to ART by this age group [ 27 ].