Transitional community adherence support for people leaving incarceration in South Africa: a pragmatic, open-label, randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People released from correctional facilities face multifactorial barriers to continuing HIV treatment. We hypothesised that barriers faced in the first 6 months of community re-entry would be decreased by a multilevel group-based and peer-led intervention, the Transitional Community Adherence Club (TCAC).

Methods

We did a pragmatic, open-label, individually randomised controlled trial in five correctional facilities in Gauteng, South Africa. Participants aged 18 years and older and receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in correctional facilities were enrolled before release and randomly assigned (1:2) to either passive referral (usual care) or TCACs. TCACs followed a 12-session curriculum over 6 months and were facilitated by trained peer and social workers. Part

SUBMITTER: Mabuto T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10894448 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature