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Adherence to HAART medication regimens is vital to maintaining suppression of HIV, but persons with HIV face many challenges to adhering consistently to HIV medication regimens. This is particularly true for persons who live in geographically-isolated areas or who have significant levels of cognitive compromise. A videophone-based version of Reynolds' HAART CARE (HC) telephone intervention for ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of late HIV diagnosis (CD4<200 cell/mm³) in an HIV clinic in Mexico City between 2001-2008, to assess changes in this prevalence across the study period, and to determine the risk factors associated to late testing (LT). MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional analysis including all patients recently diagnosed as HIV. We estimated the proportion of LT patien...

Adherence is the milestone of a successful therapy. Over the last decade several authors have addressed the importance of adherence for optimal results of antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. Many health care systems are investing substantial resources to make available contemporary antiretroviral therapy. Despite the large investment in medications, insufficient investments have been made into an int...

UNLABELLED Prognosis of HIV-1 infection dramatically improved during the last decade. Meanwhile, treatment-induced virological success has always been different in adult and children patients. AIM To compare 10 years of follow up in HIV-1 vertically infected children and adult patients. METHODS Monocentric retrospective longitudinal analysis of vertically HIV-1-infected children and adult p...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of a peer-delivered intervention to promote short-term (6-month) and long-term (12-month) adherence to HAART in a Mozambican clinic population. DESIGN A 2-arm randomized controlled trial was conducted between October 2004 and June 2006. PARTICIPANTS Of 350 men and women (> or = 18 years) initiating HAART, 53.7% were female, and 97% were on 1 fixed-dose combi...