Potential influences of the COVID-19 pandemic on drug use and HIV care among people living with HIV and substance use disorders: experience from a pilot mHealth …

KR Hochstatter, WZ Akhtar, S Dietz, K Pe-Romashko… - AIDS and Behavior, 2021 - Springer
… Poor mental health and social isolation are both strong risk factors for substance use
substance use, which is highly correlated with risky sexual behavior and antiretroviral therapy (ART…

Mental health, substance use and viral suppression in adolescents receiving ART at a paediatric HIV clinic in South Africa

AD Haas, KG Technau, S Pahad… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Mental health and substance use problems including depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse
and illicit drug use can adversely affect adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) [26-29]. Such …

Alcohol use and antiretroviral therapy non-adherence among adults living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

J Velloza, CG Kemp, FM Aunon, MK Ramaiya… - AIDS and Behavior, 2020 - Springer
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is efficacious in improving clinical outcomes among people
living with HIV (PLWH) and reducing HIV transmission when taken regularly. Research …

Can contingency management solve the problem of adherence to antiretroviral therapy in drug-dependent individuals?

A Ribeiro, DGA Pinto, AP Trevisol… - Health Education & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… Only clinical trials that included adherence to ART in people living with HIV and who
presented with substance use disorder were included. We included publications that tested CM …

Supporting direct acting antiviral medication adherence and treatment completion in a sample of predominantly rural veterans with hepatitis C and substance use …

MJ Burton, AC Voluse, AB Patel - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2024 - Springer
… This epidemic of hepatitis C infection is fueled by a concurrent epidemic of substance
use disorders (SUDs), in particular opioid use disorder in predominantly rural settings [1, 2]. …

Real-world efficacy of direct acting antiviral therapies in patients with HIV/HCV

SV Patel, DT Jayaweera, KN Althoff, JJ Eron… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… of depression, diabetes, substance abuse, and use of DAA regimens without ribavirin were
… Our results were consistent with other real-world studies, supporting the use of HCV therapy

“That person stopped being human”: Intersecting HIV and substance use stigma among patients and providers in South Africa

KS Regenauer, B Myers, AW Batchelder… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2020 - Elsevier
… If taken consistently, PLWH who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) can reach normal …
of alcohol use disorders on HIV treatment outcomes, adherence to antiretroviral therapy and …

HIV stigma, depressive symptoms, and substance use

VA Earnshaw, LA Eaton, ZK Collier… - AIDS patient care and …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
… of antiretroviral therapy initiation. Enacted stigma, or experiencing discrimination from
others due to one's HIV, is related to greater stress and more missed HIV clinic appointments. …

Changes in substance use in relation to opioid agonist therapy among people who use drugs in a Canadian setting

H Dong, K Hayashi, MJ Milloy, K DeBeck… - Drug and alcohol …, 2020 - Elsevier
… of the different substance use variables for each six-month period, and used segmented
regression on this aggregate data to describe the overall substance use trend before and after …

“Too much boredom isn'ta good thing”: Adapting behavioral activation for substance use in a resource-limited South African HIV care setting.

JF Magidson, LS Andersen, EN Satinsky, B Myers… - …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
… Untreated substance use has been associated with poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy
(ART) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, which can lead to viral nonsuppression and greater …