Distinctive barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence among non-adherent adolescents living with HIV in Botswana.

ABSTRACT: Levels of adherence to HIV treatment are lower among adolescents compared with older and younger individuals receiving similar therapies. We purposely sampled the most and least adherent adolescents from a 300-adolescent longitudinal HIV treatment adherence study in Gaborone, Botswana. Multiple objective and subjective measures of adherence were available and study participants were selected based on sustained patterns of either excellent or poor adherence over a one-year period. Focus group discussions (FGD) and in-depth interviews (IDI) were conducted with the adolescents and a subset of their caregivers with the goal of revealing barriers and facilitators of adherence. Focus groups were segregated by adherence classification of the participants. Following coding of transcripts, matrices

SUBMITTER: Yang E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6083824 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature