“They are looking just the same”: Antiretroviral treatment as social danger in rural Malawi

A Kaler, N Angotti, A Ramaiya - Social Science & Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Research on the social impact of ART pivots on questions of individual adherence and
community acceptability of treatment programmes. In this paper we examine unexpected …

The social construction of AIDS during a time of evolving access to antiretroviral therapy in rural Malawi

A Conroy, S Yeatman, K Dovel - Culture, health & sexuality, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper draws upon a set of conversational journals collected over the past decade in
rural Malawi, to understand how perceptions of AIDS are constructed as talk of antiretroviral …

Social meanings of adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Cambodia

J Elliott, P Phlong, V Saphon, J Kaldor… - Culture, health & …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Global expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes for people living with HIV is
the largest public health undertaking to date. Antiretroviral therapy adherence drives …

Understanding specific contexts of antiretroviral therapy adherence in rural South Africa: A thematic analysis of digital stories from a community with high HIV …

A Treffry-Goatley, R Lessells, P Sykes… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Near-perfect adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is required to achieve the best
possible prevention and treatment outcomes. Yet, there have been particular concerns …

Test but not treat: Community members' experiences with barriers and facilitators to universal antiretroviral therapy uptake in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

C Iwuji, RS Chimukuche, T Zuma, M Plazy… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has revolutionised the care of HIV-positive
individuals resulting in marked decreases in morbidity and mortality, and markedly reduced …

" Just like fever": a qualitative study on the impact of antiretroviral provision on the normalisation of HIV in rural Tanzania and its implications for prevention

M Roura, A Wringe, J Busza, B Nhandi, D Mbata… - BMC international health …, 2009 - Springer
Background Once effective therapy for a previously untreatable condition is made available,
a normalisation of the disease often occurs. As part of a broader initiative to monitor the …

Community and health system factors associated with antiretroviral therapy initiation among men and women in Malawi: a mixed methods study exploring gender …

K Phiri, K McBride, C Moucheraud… - International …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Although community and health system factors are known to be critical to timely
antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation, little is known about how they affect men and women …

A qualitative study to identify perceptual barriers to antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake and adherence in HIV positive people from UK black African and Caribbean …

E Glendinning, J Spiers, JA Smith, J Anderson… - AIDS and Behavior, 2019 - Springer
To inform the development of interventions to increase uptake and adherence to
antiretroviral therapy (ART), we explored perceptions of ART in semi-structured interviews …

Re-examining the early years of anti-retroviral treatment in South Africa: A taste for medicine

J Steinberg - African Affairs, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Antiretroviral treatment (ART) has become a ubiquitous feature of South African life. By early
2015, three million people had begun ART in South Africa. In the light of widespread positive …

Patient‐reported barriers and drivers of adherence to antiretrovirals in sub‐Saharan Africa: A meta‐ethnography

S Merten, E Kenter, O McKenzie… - Tropical Medicine & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This meta‐ethnography aims at providing a synthesis and an interpretation of the findings of
recent social science research on the questions of retention in antiretroviral therapy (ART) …