"My future is bright…I won't die with the cause of AIDS": ten-year patient ART outcomes and experiences in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

South Africa is moving into a new era of HIV treatment with "treat all" policies where people may be on treatment for most of their lives. We need to understand treatment outcomes and facilitators of long-term antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence and retention-in-care in the South African context. In one of the first studies to investigate long-term treatment outcomes in South Africa, we aimed to describe ten-year patient outcomes at a large public-sector HIV clinic in Johannesburg and explore patient experiences of the treatment programme over this time in order to ascertain factors that may aid or hinder long-term adherence and retention.

Methods

We conducted a cohort analysis (n = 6644) and in-depth interviews (n = 24) among HIV-positive adults initiating

SUBMITTER: Hendrickson CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6186968 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature