作者
Lucie D Cluver, Rebecca J Hodes, Elona Toska, Khameer K Kidia, F Mark Orkin, Lorraine Sherr, Franziska Meinck
发表日期
2015/6/1
来源
Aids
卷号
29
页码范围
S57-S65
出版商
LWW
简介
Objectives:
WHO guidelines recommend disclosure to HIV-positive children by school age in order to improve antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. However, quantitative evidence remains limited for adolescents. This study examines associations between adolescent knowledge of HIV-positive status and ART-adherence in South Africa.
Design:
A cross-sectional study of the largest known community-traced sample of HIV-positive adolescents. Six hundred and eighty-four ART-initiated adolescents aged 10–19 years (52% female, 79% perinatally infected) were interviewed.
Methods:
In a low-resource health district, all adolescents who had ever initiated ART in a stratified sample of 39 health facilities were identified and traced to 150 communities [n= 1102, 351 excluded, 27 deceased, 40 (5.5%) refusals]. Quantitative interviews used standardized questionnaires and clinic records. Quantitative analyses used …
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