Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among Adult Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Southern Ethiopia
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Predictors of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected persons: a prospective study in Southwest Ethiopia
BACKGROUND The devastating impact of AIDS in the world especially in sub-Saharan Africa has led to an unprecedented global effort to ensure access to antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. Given that medication-taking behavior can immensely affect an individual's response; ART adherence is now widely recognized as an 'Achilles heel' for the successful outcome. The present study was undertaken to investiga...
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متن کاملErratum to: Factors associated with adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) among adult people living with HIV and attending their clinical care, Eastern Ethiopia.
It has come to the publisher’s attention that in the original article [1], Table 3 was incorrectly formatted. The correct formatting of the table has been updated in the original article, and published in this Erratum for quick reference, see Table 1. In addition, the authors noticed errors in certain reference citations within the discussion section following the publication of [1]. The sectio...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Virology and AIDS
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2469-567X
DOI: 10.23937/2469-567x/1510038