The database
•Established in 1992 (since 1984 in some centres), 62 hospitals.
•Inclusion criteria :
–HIV-1 or HIV-2 infection
–Followed in a participating ward
–Written informed consent
•Data are collected prospectively by clinical research assistants
–Age, sex, transmission group, diagnosis linked or not with HIV infection
–CD4 cell count, HIV-RNA)
–Treatments
From medical records using a standardized form
Entered locally using the DMI2 software
At each in or out)patient visit with a clinical event or therapeutic event or at least every 6
months
•Patients are identified through an unlinked code generated at time of extraction
from last and first name and day and month of birth
•The database is running with Oracle and analysed with SAS