Clinic and care: associations with adolescent antiretroviral therapy adherence in a prospective cohort in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adolescent antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence remains critically low. We lack research testing protective factors across both clinic and care environments.

Design

A prospective cohort of adolescents living with HIV (sample n = 969, 55% girls, baseline mean age 13.6) in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa were interviewed at baseline and 18-month follow-up (2014-2015, 2015-2016). We traced all adolescents ever initiated on treatment in 52 government health facilities (90% uptake, 93% 18-month retention, 1.2% mortality).

Methods

Clinical records were collected; standardized questionnaires were administered by trained data collectors in adolescents' language of choice. Probit within-between regressions and average adjusted probability calculations w

SUBMITTER: Cluver L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8183481 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature