Relationship between combination antiretroviral therapy regimens and diabetes mellitus-related comorbidities among HIV patients in Gaborone Botswana

Background Combination antiretroviral therapy ( cARTs) regiments are known to prolong the recipients’ life even though they are risk factorsfor diabetes mellitus-related comorbidities (DRCs). We sought to: (i) examine cARTrelationship with DRCs among patients attending HIV clinics in Gaborone, Botswana (which cARTregimens are associated with shorter/longer time to the event), (ii) characterize patients’ underlying biomedical and demographic risk factorsof DRC and identify the most important, (iii) investigate survival of patients on different cARTregimens in the presence of these risk factors.