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{"title":"Health System Responsiveness for Persons with HIV and Disability in South Western Uganda.","authors":"Emmanuel Kibet,&nbsp;Florence Namirimu,&nbsp;Felista Nakazibwe,&nbsp;Arnold Zironda Kyagera,&nbsp;Disan Ayebazibwe,&nbsp;Bernard Omech","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S414288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S414288","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Inequitable access to Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) Treatment and Care Services (HATCS) for People With Disabilities (PWD) is a hurdle to ending the pandemic by 2030. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Health System's Responsiveness (HSR) and associated factors for PWD attending HATCS at health facilities in South Western Uganda.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Between February and April 2022, we enrolled a total of 106 people with disabilities for a quantitative study and 14 key informants from selected primary care HIV clinics. The World Health Organization Multi-country study's disability assessment schedules 2.0 and Health system responsiveness (HSR) questionnaire were adopted to measure the level of disabilities and responsiveness, respectively. The level of HSR was evaluated using descriptive analysis. The association between socio-demographics, level of disabilities and HSR was evaluated through binary and multivariable logistic regression. The qualitative data were collected from 14 key informants using interview guide and analyzed according to thematic areas (deductive approaches).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Overall, Health system responsiveness (HSR) was at 47.62% being acceptable to people living with HIV and Disabilities in south western Uganda. Across different domains, the best performance was reported in social consideration (68.57%) and autonomy (67.62%). The least performance was registered in dignity (2.83%), confidentiality (2.91%), prompt Attention (17.35%) and Choices (30.48%). Whereas performance in communications (53.92%) and quality of basic amenities (42.27%) were average. There were no socio-demographics or disability variables that were predictive of HATCS responsiveness. PWDs experienced lack of social support, poor communication, stigma and discrimination during the HATCs services. On the other hand, the health-care providers felt frustrated by their inability to communicate effectively with PWDs and meet their need for social support.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>HSR was comparatively low, with dignity, confidentiality, prompt attention, and choice ranking worst. To address the universal and legitimate requirements of PWDs in accessing care, urgent initiatives are required to create awareness among all stakeholders.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"445-456"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/cc/e9/hiv-15-445.PMC10422993.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10352081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predictors of Viral Load Status Over Time Among HIV Infected Adults Under HAART in Zewditu Memorial Hospital, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study.","authors":"Ayitenew Agegn Gwadu,&nbsp;Mengistu Abebe Tegegne,&nbsp;Kidist Belay Mihretu,&nbsp;Awoke Seyoum Tegegne","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S396030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S396030","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>HIV attacks the CD4 cells which are responsible for the body's immune response to infectious agents. The main objective of this study was to identify predictors of viral load status over time among HIV patients under HAART in Zewditu Memorial Hospital.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective institutional-based cohort study design was conducted on 161 HIV-infected adults under HAART whose follow-ups were from January 2014 up to December 2017. A generalized linear mixed-effects model was conducted to infer predictors of the status of viral load at 95% of CI).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The descriptive statistics revealed that about 55.9% of the adults under treatment had a detected viral load status. Among the potential predictors, visiting time of patients (AOR = 0.731, 95%: (0.634,0.842) and p-value <0.01), age of patients (AOR = 1.0666, 95% CI: (1.0527,1.0917) and p-value <0.01), weight (AOR=. 0.904, 95% CI: (0.862, 0.946) and p-value <0.01), baseline CD4 cell count (AOR = 0.996, 95% CI: (0.994, 0.998) and P-value <0.01), educated patients (AOR = 0.030, 95% CI: (0.002, 0.385) and p-value=0.0053), rural patients (AOR = 6.30,95% CL: (1.78, 2.25) and p-value=0.0043), working status patients (AOR = 0.5905, 95% CI: (0.547,0.638), p-value <0.01), poor adherent patients (AOR = 1.120, 95% CI; (1.035,1.391) and p-value = 0.016) and patients disclosed the disease status (AOR = 0.195, 95% CI: (0.023, 0.818) and p-value=0.0134) significantly affected the detection status of viral loads, keeping all other covariates constant.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The predictor variables; visiting times, the weight of patients, residence area, age of patients, educational level, clinical stages, functional status, baseline CD4 cell count, adherence status, and disclosure status of the disease statistically and significantly affected the status of viral load. Hence, health-related education should be given for patients to disclose their disease status, to be good adherents based on the prescription given to the health staff. Due attentions should be given for rural and uneducated patients. Attention should be forwarded to for non-adherent patients to follow the instruction given by the health staff.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"29-40"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/1a/13/hiv-15-29.PMC9921434.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10715992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nutritional Treatment Outcomes of Therapeutic Feeding Program and Its Predictors Among HIV Patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Hawassa City, Sidama, Southern Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort Study.","authors":"Helen Tadesse,&nbsp;Alemayehu Toma","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S395936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S395936","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>HIV-induced malnutrition is highly prevalent in different parts of the world particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The food intervention package is one of the strategies that targets malnutrition among HIV-infected people through nutritional evaluation, counseling and care. However, little is known concerning the outcomes of intervention in such patients in treatment program. Therefore, this study aimed to assess nutritional treatment outcomes and its predictors among adult HIV-positive undernourished individuals in Ethiopia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Facility based retrospective cohort study was deployed in Adult Antiretroviral therapy clinic of Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital. Data of 419 patients were extracted from the food by prescription registration book and patient cards using structured questionnaires. Statistical significance was assessed using Cox-proportional Hazard model by determining hazard ratios and 95% confidence interval.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The proportion of adult HIV patients who recovered from malnutrition after they were enrolled in the food by prescription therapy was 53.0%. The variables found to have an association with good nutritional treatment outcomes of food by prescription in the final model are being female (Adjusted Hazard Ratio (AHR) = 3.38, 95% CI: 2.15, 5.32), secondary education (AHR = 2.16, 95% CI: 1.11, 4.18), tertiary education (AHR = 3.75, 95% CI: 1.66, 8.48), SAM (AHR = 0.20; 95% CI: 0.12, 0.35), and HAART (AHR = 2.70, 95% CI: 1.50, 4.86). Having Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) at baseline nutritional assessment (AHR = 3.42, 95% CI; 2.81, 5.15), taking ART for more than 12 months (AHR = 0.26, 95% CI: 0.13, 0.84) and starting HAART immediately after testing positive (AHR = 0.26, 95% CI: 0.13, 0.84) are significantly associated with nutritional treatment failure.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Fifty-three percent of HIV patients recovered from malnutrition after they were enrolled in the food by prescription therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"83-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/6d/4c/hiv-15-83.PMC10008424.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9119837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prevalence and Patterns of Adverse Drug Events Among Adult Patients with Human Immune Virus Infection on Dolutegravir-Based Antiretroviral Drug Regimens in Amhara Comprehensive Specialized Hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia: A Multicenter Retrospective Follow-Up Study.","authors":"Alemu Birara Zemariam,&nbsp;Yabibal Berie Tadesse,&nbsp;Abebe Tarekegn Kassaw","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S411948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S411948","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Antiretroviral therapy (ART) refers to any HIV treatment that uses a combination of two or more drugs to suppress viral load and preserve immunofunction. Despite the success of ART, adverse events persist, in particular in patients with baseline viral loads >100,000 copies/mL. Apart from premarketing surveillance, the safety and risk profile of dolutegravir has not been thoroughly researched in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and patterns of adverse drug events among HIV-infected adult patients on dolutegravir-based ART regimens at Amhara comprehensive specialized hospitals, northwest Ethiopia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective follow-up study was conducted from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2021 at Amhara comprehensive specialized hospitals, with a sample size of 423. Simple random sampling was employed and data collected using kobo tool box software by four trained BSc nurses from March to April, 2022. SPSS 25 was used for analysis. Descriptive summary statistics are used and data presented using tables and text.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 372 patient charts were included in the final analysis, and the prevalence of adverse events associated with dolutegravir was found to be 37.6% (95% CI 32.1%-42.1%). Nearly two-thirds (60.7%) of the participants had neuropsychiatric symptoms, followed by gastrointestinal symptoms (23.6%) and hepatic problems (7.14%). All recorded adverse events were mild.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Dolutegravir adverse events were relatively low compared to previous studies. Common adverse events reported were neuropsychiatric symptoms and gastrointestinal symptoms, followed by hepatic and renal events. All adverse events were mild and none was severe or life-threatening events. Therefore, we recommend the use of dolutegravir in clinical settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"271-278"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/7b/a6/hiv-15-271.PMC10241189.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9594789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors Influencing the Status of Adherence to Second Clinic Visit Among Clients Newly Diagnosed with HIV in Northern Uganda: A Mixed-Methods Study.","authors":"Mary Gorreth Nakate,&nbsp;Bernard Omech,&nbsp;Catherine Kwagala,&nbsp;Irene Gimbo,&nbsp;Augustine Bulitya,&nbsp;Julius Kyeswa,&nbsp;Enoch Katwere,&nbsp;Amir Kabunga,&nbsp;Samson Udho","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S405492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S405492","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The \"test-and-treat\" policy may adversely affect adherence to clinic visits of clients newly diagnosed with HIV due to unpreparedness to commence treatment. However, few studies have examined the factors influencing the status of adherence to second clinic visit among clients newly diagnosed with HIV. We examined the factors influencing the status of adherence to second clinic visit among clients newly diagnosed with HIV in Apac District, northern Uganda.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a mixed-methods study conducted among 292 systematically sampled clients newly diagnosed with HIV for the survey and 15 purposively sampled clients for the in-depth interview from July to August 2020. Quantitative data were collected using a structured questionnaire, while qualitative data were collected using an interview guide. Quantitative data were analyzed descriptively while qualitative data were analyzed thematically.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean age of the study participants were 39.5±11 years and their age ranged from 18 to 72 years. Close to three-quarters of study participants adhered to their second clinic visit 74% (214/292). Factors that influenced participants' adherence to the second clinic visit were the adequate HIV pre/post-test counseling positive attitude of clients towards HIV-positive diagnosis, family support, and long waiting time.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>More than two-thirds of clients newly diagnosed with HIV in Apac District, northern Uganda adhered to their second clinic visit. HIV/AIDS service providers should strengthen HIV pre/post-test counselling, social support systems for persons living with HIV/AIDS, and reduce clients' waiting time to improve adherence to second clinic visit among clients newly diagnosed with HIV.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"135-143"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/58/77/hiv-15-135.PMC10075261.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9272279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Treatment Regimens and Care Models for Older Patients Living with HIV: Are We Doing Enough?","authors":"Emily Frey,&nbsp;Carrie D Johnston,&nbsp;Eugenia L Siegler","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S311613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S311613","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With improved access to antiretroviral therapy throughout the world, people are aging with HIV, and a large portion of the global population of people with HIV (PWH) is now age 50 or older. Older PWH experience more comorbidities, aging-related syndromes, mental health challenges, and difficulties accessing fundamental needs than the population of older adults without HIV. As a result, ensuring that older PWH are receiving comprehensive healthcare can often be overwhelming for both PWH and the providers. Although there is a growing literature addressing the needs of this population, gaps remain in care delivery and research. In this paper, we suggest seven key components to any healthcare program designed to address the needs of older people with HIV: management of HIV, comorbidity screening and treatment, primary care coordination and planning, attention to aging related-syndromes, optimization of functional status, support of behavioral health, and improved access to basic needs and services. We review many of the difficulties and controversies related to the implementation of these components, which include the absence of screening guidelines for this population and the challenges of care integration, and we suggest key next steps.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"191-208"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/95/17/hiv-15-191.PMC10155713.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9433063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Socioeconomic Inequality in Knowledge About HIV and Its Contributing Factors Among Women of Reproductive Age in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multicountry and Decomposition Analysis.","authors":"Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale,&nbsp;Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S392548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S392548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To examine the socioeconomic inequality in knowledge about HIV and its contributing factors among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We have used the most recent demographic and health survey data of the 15 sub-Saharan African countries. 204,495 women of reproductive age made up the entire weighted sample. Erreygers normalized concentration index (ECI) was utilized to evaluate socioeconomic inequality in knowledge about HIV. The variables that contributed to the observed socioeconomic inequality were determined using decomposition analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found the pro-rich inequality in knowledge about HIV (the weighted ECI was 0.16 with a Standard error = 0.007 and P value< 0.001). The decomposition analysis indicated that educational status (46.10%), wealth status (30.85%), listening to the radio (21.73%), and reading newspapers (7.05%) were among the contributors to the pro-rich socioeconomic inequalities in knowledge about HIV.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Having knowledge about HIV is concentrated among rich reproductive-age women. Educational status, wealth status, and media exposure were the major contributors and should be a priority for interventions to reduce the inequality in knowledge about HIV.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"53-62"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e6/5f/hiv-15-53.PMC9985886.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9445487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Visceral Leishmaniasis Associated with HIV Coinfection in Pará, Brazil.","authors":"Raimundo Nonato Colares Camargo Júnior,&nbsp;Jaciara Simone Sarmento Gomes,&nbsp;Mônica Cristina Corrêa Carvalho,&nbsp;Hipócrates de Menezes Chalkidis,&nbsp;Welligton Conceição da Silva,&nbsp;Juliana Sousa da Silva,&nbsp;Samia Rubielle Silva de Castro,&nbsp;Raul Cunha Lima Neto,&nbsp;Victor Hugo Pereira Moutinho","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S400189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S400189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Human visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a zoonosis of great importance to public health due to its epidemiological diversity, with emphasis on the possibility of aggravation by coinfection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim was to study the epidemiological characteristics of VL cases associated with HIV coinfection in Pará. Methods. Reported cases of VL from January 2006 to December 2016 were investigated. A descriptive epidemiological method related to age, gender, area of residence and coinfection with HIV was used. To calculate variance and test equity, the <i>F</i>-test (Fisher) was performed. To observe the influence of one aspect on another, the chi-square was used to verify if there was dependence or independence between the variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1171 cases of VL were reported during the study period. There was an annual mean of LV of 94.9, with a statistical difference (p<0.05) between age groups, with the highest number of cases being observed in children aged 1 to 4 years (27.16%). Males and the urban area had a higher number of cases. There were 57 cases of VL/HIV coinfection, with emphasis on the year 2013 and the municipality of Santarém, which had the highest number of cases. During the ten years studied, there was a correlation between coinfection VL/ HIV, with significant differences between patients with and without HIV who contracted VL (p<0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The data reveal the endemic nature of VL in the region, with a high percentage of infection in children living in urban areas. Although the studied region is not identified as a predominant area of HIV cases, this study showed a high annual average (10.3) of cases of VL/HIV coinfection being the first time that cases of VL/HIV coinfection were reported in the Mesoregion of the Lower Amazon and Southwest Pará.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"247-255"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/93/bb/hiv-15-247.PMC10226483.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9553552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Time to Viral Load Suppression and Its Predictors Among Adult Patients on Antiretro Viral Therapy in Nigist Eleni Mohammed Memorial Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Hossana, Southern Ethiopia.","authors":"Eshetu Erjino,&nbsp;Ermias Abera,&nbsp;Lire Lemma Tirore","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S408565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S408565","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Unsuppressed viral load count in patients on anti-retroviral therapy is linked to poorer survival and increased transmission of the virus. Despite efforts made in Ethiopia, the viral load suppression rate is still low.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To estimate time to viral load suppression and predictors of viral load suppression among adults on anti-retroviral therapy in Nigist Elen Mohamed Memorial Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, 2022.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>A retrospective follow-up study was conducted among 297 adults on anti-retroviral therapy from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2021. A simple random sampling technique was used to select study participants. The data were analyzed using STATA 14. Cox regression model was used. The adjusted hazard ratio with 95% CI was estimated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 296 records of patients on anti-retroviral therapy were included in this study. The incidence of viral load suppression was 9.68 per 100-person months. The median time for viral load suppression was 9 months. Patients with baseline CD4 ≥200 cell/mm³ (AHR: 1.87; 95% CI = 1.34, 2.63), who had no opportunistic infections (AHR = 1.84; 95% CI = 1.34, 2.52), who were on WHO clinical stage-I or II (AHR = 2.12; 95% CI = 1.18, 3.79) and who have taken tuberculosis preventive therapy (AHR = 2.24; 95% CI = 1.66, 3.02) had higher hazards of viral load suppression.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The median time for viral load suppression was 9 months. Patients who had no opportunistic infection, with higher CD4 count, on WHO clinical stage-I or II, who have taken tuberculosis preventive therapy had higher hazards of viral load suppression. Careful monitoring and counseling of patients with CD4 levels lower than 200 cells/mm3 are necessary. Careful monitoring and counseling of patients in advanced WHO clinical stages, with lower CD4 count levels and with opportunistic infections is crucial. Strengthening the provision of tuberculosis preventive therapy is warranted.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"157-171"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/18/2c/hiv-15-157.PMC10124622.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9711185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Health Care Needs Among People Living with HIV: The Implication of Continuum of Care.","authors":"Kusman Ibrahim,&nbsp;Laili Rahayuwati,&nbsp;Yusshy Kurnia Herliani,&nbsp;Iqbal Pramukti","doi":"10.2147/HIV.S403510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2147/HIV.S403510","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Human immunodeficiency virus remains a major public health problem in Indonesia. People living with HIV (PLWH) have various health problems as result from disease progression that impacts their health care needs. This study aims to explore health care needs and to test the factors associated with health care needs among people living with HIV.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-sectional descriptive study design was undertaken with 243 respondents completing a self-reported HIV-Health Care Need Questionnaire. Participants were recruited using the purposive sampling technique from six HIV clinics in West Java, Indonesia. The data were analyzed using descriptive and multiple logistic regression statistical techniques.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The majority of the subjects were diagnosed within less than 5 years and have been receiving antiretroviral therapy. Nursing care was indicated as the most needed, offered, and received care. Emergency financial assistance, legal services, insurance premiums, and nutritional intervention were perceived as gaps between needed and received. Characteristics such as age, educational background, having HIV manager, and income were significantly correlated to nutritional care (p< 0.05). Nutritional care was increased by 3.96% if PLWH having HIV manager (CI: 1.17-13.38, p< 0.05).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Addressing the gap between health care needs and health offered was important to ensure that care was received appropriately. Continuing assessment of health care needs can provide direction to deliver appropriate care and ensure a comprehensive continuum of care for PLWH.</p>","PeriodicalId":46555,"journal":{"name":"HIV AIDS-Research and Palliative Care","volume":"15 ","pages":"235-246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/7e/f5/hiv-15-235.PMC10204712.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9527025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}