Brief communication: The extent and determinants of viral suppression among patients on protease inhibitor-based Anti-retro-viral therapy undergoing intensive adherence counselling in a public HIV care center in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Protease inhibitor (PI)-based Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) regimens are key drugs in HIV management, especially when used as second line drugs. However, some PI-based ART have high adherence demands or tolerable adverse effects which may affect adherence and subsequently viral suppression. We assessed the extent of viral suppression, its determinants, and the experiences of clients on PI-based ART undergoing intensive adherence counselling (IAC) in a public HIV clinic.

Methods

Mixed methods sequential explanatory study involving a quantitative retrospective chart review for clients on PI-based ART who had received IAC from Dec 2016 to May 2023 and qualitative interviews for clients on PI-based ART who had received IAC in the past six months at an urban public HIV

SUBMITTER: Lukyamuzi Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11515496 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature