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https://www.selleckchem.com/products/erastin.html Aim To elicit patients' preferences for HIV treatment of the rural population in Colombia.Methods A discrete choice experiment (DCE), conducted in a HIV clinic in Bogotá, was used to examine the trade-off between five HIV treatment attributes effect on life expectancy, effect on physical activity, risk of moderate side effects, accessibility to clinic and economic costs to access controls. Attributes selection was based on literature review, expert consultation and a focus group with six patients. An efficient experimental design was used to define two versions of the questionnaire with each twelve choice sets and a dominance task was added to check reliability. A mixed logit model was then used to analyse the data and subgroup analyses were conducted on the basis of age, gender, education and sexual preference.Results A total of 129 HIV patients were included for analysis. For all treatment attributes, significant differences between at least two levels were observed, meaning that all attributes were significant predictors of choice. Patients valued the effect on physical activity (conditional relative importance of 27.5%) and the effect on life expectancy (26.0%) the most. Subgroup analyses regards age and education showed significant differences younger patients and high educated patients valued the effect on physical activity the most important, whereas older patients mostly valued the effect on life expectancy and low educated patients mostly valued the accessibility to clinic.Limitations One potential limitation is selection bias as only patients from one HIV clinic were reached. Additionally, questionnaires were partly administered in the waiting rooms, which potentially led to noise in the data.Conclusions This study suggests that all HIV treatment characteristics included in this DCE were important and that HIV patients from rural Colombia valued short-term efficacy (i.e. effect on physical activity) and lon

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