Roles, barriers, and recommendations for community health workers providing community-based HIV Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review

S Ngcobo, S Scheepers, N Mbatha… - AIDS Patient Care …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
While the impact of Community Health Workers (CHWs) on home-based human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care has been documented, barriers and recommendations …

[HTML][HTML] Risk factors for late linkage to care and delayed antiretroviral therapy initiation among adults with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta …

TG Fuge, G Tsourtos, ER Miller - International Journal of Infectious …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives Late treatment initiation threatens the clinical and public health benefits of
antiretroviral therapy (ART). Quantitative synthesizes of the existing evidence related to this …

[HTML][HTML] Factors affecting adherence to antiretroviral therapy among pregnant women in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

OV Adeniyi, AI Ajayi, D Ter Goon, EO Owolabi… - BMC infectious …, 2018 - Springer
Background Context-specific factors influence adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART)
among pregnant women living with HIV. Gaps exist in the understanding of the reasons for …

[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing adherence to antiretroviral treatment among adults accessing care from private health facilities in Malawi

L Chirambo, M Valeta, TM Banda Kamanga… - BMC public health, 2019 - Springer
Background Private health facilities are increasingly being recognized as the neglected
partner in the provision of HIV services. The non-adherence rate in the study sites ranged …

Twelve-month outcomes of community-based differentiated models of multimonth dispensing of ART among stable HIV-infected adults in Lesotho: a cluster …

BB Tukei, G Fatti, A Tiam… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Background: Lesotho adopted the test-and-treat approach for HIV treatment in June 2016,
which increased antiretroviral treatment (ART) clinic volume. We evaluated community …

Challenges experienced by community health workers and their motivation to attend a self-management programme

LJ Johnson, LH Schopp, F Waggie… - African Journal of Primary …, 2022 - journals.co.za
Background Community health workers (CHWs) are change agents expected to assist in
decreasing the global burden of disease in the communities they serve. However, they …

HIV treatment outcomes among patients initiated on antiretroviral therapy pre and post-universal test and treat guidelines in South Africa

K Hirasen, MP Fox, CJ Hendrickson… - … and clinical risk …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Officially rolled out on 01 September 2016, South Africa's Universal Test and
Treat (UTT) policy calls for first-line antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation among all known …

[HTML][HTML] Predictors of loss to follow-up among patients on ART at a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

R Arnesen, AP Moll, SV Shenoi - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Improved HIV outcomes as a result of expanded antiretroviral therapy (ART)
access is threatened by increasing rates of loss to follow up (LTFU) among those on ART …

[HTML][HTML] A qualitative analysis of interprofessional healthcare team members' perceptions of patient barriers to healthcare engagement

RE Powell, A Doty, RJ Casten, BW Rovner… - BMC Health Services …, 2016 - Springer
Background Healthcare systems increasingly engage interprofessional healthcare team
members such as case managers, social workers, and community health workers to work …

[HTML][HTML] HIV-related stigma and uptake of antiretroviral treatment among incarcerated individuals living with HIV/AIDS in South African correctional settings: A mixed …

L Chimoyi, CJ Hoffmann, H Hausler, P Ndini… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Stigma affects engagement with HIV healthcare services. We investigated the
prevalence and experience of stigma among incarcerated people living with HIV (PLHIV) in …