Adherence & Retention
Expert Panel: Linkage and Retention in HIV Care
Anneliese At the Center for Health Intervention and Prevention we have developed a few measures of facilitators/barriers to retention in HIV care, one of these is specific to factors that may influence early retention in HIV care amongst individuals not…
Fwd: [HEALTHGAP] Webinar: impact of treatment as prevention: models to guide ending the epidemic
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:33 PM Subject: [HEALTHGAP] Webinar: impact of treatment as prevention: models to guide ending the epidemic All... Health GAP, AVAC, and AmFAR will be co-hosting an webinar for civil…
pill box with electronic device to count the amount of time it has been opened
A research has been done to prove the efficiency of the pill box Romans1:16-20
Emergency Planning for HIV Treatment Access in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings: Post-Election Violence in Kenya
In 2007, Kenya experienced a wave of violence following its presidential elections. This case study documents the emergency plans that had been in place to ensure continuity of HIV treatment programs prior to the outbreak of violence, and the events that…
Emergency Planning for HIV Treatment Access in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings: The Case of Northern Uganda
During emergencies, the fragile healthcare infrastructures in many developing countries cannot address acute injuries while continuing to manage chronic illness. Potential interruptions in antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV are serious…
Depression, Alcohol Use and Adherence to ART in Africa: A Systematic Review by Nakimuli-Mpungu et al. AIDS & Behavior 2011
Dear GHD Colleagues: I thought this recently (Nov 25th) e-published manuscript ahead of print looking at depression, alcohol use and ART adherence from our collaborative research group and led by Nakimuli-Mpungu E et al. may be of interest to some of you…
posting web links
Hi All, As you may have seen recently, there have been a few posts with SPAM web links. I imagine these accounts have been hacked, and we're looking into filter improvements at GHDonline to keep them off our web site. To help community members avoid…
Adherence highlighted in the NEJM
The current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has a free access article on adherence to cardiac medications in the US healthcare system: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1107913?query=OF#t=abstract There is also a good editorial on the…
Cross-post: The effect of mobile phone text-message reminders on adherence to malaria treatment protocols
Dear All, Moderator Prashant Yadav posted the following new discussion on the effect of SMS reminder on adherence to malaria treatment: Malaria treatment provided by healthcare workers often differs from national recommended guidelines on case management.…