Background High adherence to antiretroviral therapy is crucial to the success of HIV
treatment. We evaluated comparative effectiveness of adherence interventions with the aim …

Background People who are prescribed self administered medications typically take only
about half their prescribed doses. Efforts to assist patients with adherence to medications …

Description: After HIV diagnosis, timely entry into HIV medical care and retention in that care
are essential to the provision of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). Adherence to ART is …

Epidemiological studies indicate that stress, chronic depression and lack of social support
might serve as risk factors for cancer development and progression. Recent cellular and …

Design: A rapid systematic review. Methods: We conducted a rapid systematic review of the
global evidence on interventions to improve adherence to ART, utilizing pre-existing …

HIV-positive individuals are more likely to be diagnosed with major depressive disorder than
HIV-negative individuals. Depression can precede diagnosis and be associated with risk …

The escalating costs of health care and other recent trends have made health care decisions
of great societal import, with decision-making responsibility often being transferred from …

Objective: To evaluate cognitive-behavioral therapy to enhance medication adherence and
reduce depression (CBT-AD) in individuals with HIV. Design: A two arm, randomized …

Considered the most comprehensive handbook in the field, this rich resource reviews the
biological, psychological, and social factors that affect health, health behavior, and illness …

Objective: Most previous longitudinal studies demonstrating relationships between
psychosocial variables and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease progression …