As people living with HIV age on antiretroviral therapy (ART), determining the best approaches for integrating HIV services and the management of common CVD risk factors will be critical to maintain the advances of treatment scale-up, and to assure optimal overall health outcomes. Developing strategies that effectively reduce CVD risk, optimize resource utilization, and do not undermine HIV-related program and patient outcomes is an important challenge. In order to be effective, interventions must be contextually appropriate, feasible for low-resource settings, and cognizant of limited human resources and fragile health systems. This study assessed the prevalence of CVD risk factors among adults on ART at an urban HIV clinic in South Africa and explored the feasibility of using CVD risk stratification to streamline CVD risk factor management.
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