Antiretroviral adherence for adolescents growing up with HIV: understanding real life, drug delivery and forgiveness.

ABSTRACT: Poorer adherence to medication is normal in adolescence and is one of a range of risk-taking behaviours common during a developmental stage that encompasses enormous cognitive, physical, sexual, social and emotional change. For adolescents living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) confers two significant challenges: poor health, but also the specific additional burden of onward transmission to partners. Late adolescence (15-19 years) is the only age group where HIV-associated mortality is rising, driven by poor adherence to ART and lack of access to second-line therapy, particularly amongst surviving perinatally infected young people. A previous lack of well-powered randomised multimodal behavioural ART adherence interventions

SUBMITTER: Foster C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7236389 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature