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Long-Term HIV/AIDS Survival Estimation in the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era

Amy C. Justice, MD, PhD

Mark S. Roberts, MD, MPP

Chung-Chou H. Chang, PhD

Jennifer S. Fusco, BS

CHORUS Program Team

Background. Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) prolongs short-term survival in patients with HIV/AIDS. HAART has only been available since 1996; thus, no longterm survival data are available. Computer simulation models extrapolating short-term survival data can provide estimates of long-term survival. These survival estimates may assist patients and clinicians in HAART treatment planning. The authors construct a computer simulation model based on observational data to estimate long-term survival in a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients undergoing treatment with HAART. Methods. The authors use data from the Collaboration in HIV Outcomes Research-US (CHORUS) observational cohort (N = 4791), the published literature, and US Life Tables to specify a computer simulation model of expected survival accounting for baseline CD4 cell count, progressive HAART treatment failure, progressive risk of HAART on treatment mortality, and age-associated mortality. Time to treatment failure for each of three rounds of HAART and risk of mortality on-treatment were estimated using parametric survival models with censoring of follow-up fit to CHORUS data. Off-treatment survival after HAART failure was estimated from the pre-HAART literature. Age-associated mortality was taken from US Life Tables. Results. Median projected survivals stratified by baseline CD4 cell count subgroups were CD4 > 200 cells/mm³, 15.4 years; CD4 200 cells/mm³, 8.5 years; and CD4 50 cells/mm³, 5.5 years. These values are 4 to 6 years longer than pre-HAART cohorts. The sensitivity analyses showed that the model survival predictions were most sensitive to the treatment failure rate, the on-treatment mortality rate, and the number of treatment rounds. Conclusions. Computer simulation modeling of long-term survival of patients with HIV/AIDS on HAART—accounting for differential treatment failure and death rates stratified by CD4 cell count and age-associated mortality—suggests a relatively consistent 4- to 6-year survival benefit over pre-HAAART therapies.

Key Words: AIDS • antiinfective agents/therapeutic use • CD4 lymphocyte count • life expectancy • Markov chains • models • theoretical

Medical Decision Making, Vol. 23, No. 1, 9-20 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X02239652


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