Characterizing the double-sided cascade of care for adolescents living with HIV transitioning to adulthood across Southern Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As adolescents and young people living with HIV (AYLH) age, they face a "transition cascade," a series of steps associated with transitions in their care as they become responsible for their own healthcare. In high-income countries, this usually includes transfer from predominantly paediatric/adolescent to adult clinics. In sub-Saharan Africa, paediatric HIV care is mostly provided in decentralized, non-specialist primary care clinics, where "transition" may not necessarily include transfer of care but entails becoming more autonomous for one's HIV care. Using different age thresholds as proxies for when "transition" to autonomy might occur, we evaluated pre- and post-transition outcomes among AYLH.

Methods

We included AYLH aged <16 years at enrolment, receiving

SUBMITTER: Tsondai PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6992508 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature