A nurse-led adherence intervention for HIV works and saves money

Studies have found that the initiation of ART usually has a considerable beneficial effect on laboratory measures of a person’s health. This effect of ART is so profound that it has a long-term benefit: Specifically, researchers increasingly expect that a young adult who is infected with HIV today and diagnosed shortly thereafter and who initiates ART and takes it every day (adherence) and who does not have other health issues—including substance use; smoking; co-infection with hepatitis-causing viruses; unrecognized, untreated or poorly managed mental health conditions—will likely survive into his or her senior years.