Determinants of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive adults in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

T Heestermans, JL Browne, SC Aitken, SC Vervoort… - BMJ global …, 2016 - gh.bmj.com
Objective The rapid scale up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
has resulted in an increased focus on patient adherence. Non-adherence can lead to drug …

A review of the role of food insecurity in adherence to care and treatment among adult and pediatric populations living with HIV and AIDS

S Young, AC Wheeler, SI McCoy, SD Weiser - AIDS and Behavior, 2014 - Springer
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical for reducing HIV/AIDS morbidity and
mortality. Food insecurity (FI) is emerging as an important barrier to adherence to care and …

Income shocks and HIV in Africa

M Burke, E Gong, K Jones - The Economic Journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We examine how variation in local economic conditions has shaped the AIDS epidemic in
Africa. Using data from over 200,000 individuals across 19 countries, we match biomarker …

Individual, household, and community level barriers to ART adherence among women in rural Eswatini

N Becker, LS Cordeiro, KC Poudel, TE Sibiya… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite access to free antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all people living with
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), noncompliance to treatment continues to be a …

Barriers to health care in rural Mozambique: a rapid ethnographic assessment of planned mobile health clinics for ART

A Schwitters, P Lederer, L Zilversmit… - … Health: Science and …, 2015 - ghspjournal.org
ABSTRACT Background: In Mozambique, 1.6 million people are living with HIV, and over
60% of the population lives in rural areas lacking access to health services. Mobile health …

Linkage to care following a home‐based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa

R Naik, T Doherty, D Jackson, H Tabana… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Efforts to increase awareness of HIV status have led to growing interest in
community‐based models of HIV testing. Maximizing the benefits of such programmes …

Combination prevention: new hope for stopping the epidemic

SH Vermund, RJ Hayes - Current Hiv/aids Reports, 2013 - Springer
HIV research has identified approaches that can be combined to be more effective in
transmission reduction than any 1 modality alone: delayed adolescent sexual debut, mutual …

Are health systems interventions gender blind? examining health system reconstruction in conflict affected states

V Percival, E Dusabe-Richards, H Wurie… - Globalization and …, 2018 - Springer
Background Global health policy prioritizes improving the health of women and girls, as
evident in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), multiple women's health initiatives …

A qualitative assessment of a community antiretroviral therapy group model in Tete, Mozambique

F Rasschaert, B Telfer, F Lessitala, T Decroo… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background To improve retention on ART, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Ministry of Health
and patients piloted a community-based antiretroviral distribution and adherence monitoring …

The association among literacy, numeracy, HIV knowledge and health-seeking behavior: a population-based survey of women in rural Mozambique

PJ Ciampa, LME Vaz, M Blevins, M Sidat, RL Rothman… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Limited literacy skills are common in the United States (US) and are related to
lower HIV knowledge and worse health behaviors and outcomes. The extent of these …