Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00149-8
Prosper F Njau, Emmanuel Katabaro, Solis Winters, Amon Sabasaba, Kassim Hassan, Babuu Joseph, Hamza Maila, Janeth Msasa, Carolyn A Fahey, Laura Packel, William H Dow, Nicholas P Jewell, Nzovu Ulenga, Natalino Mwenda, Sandra I McCoy
{"title":"Impact of financial incentives on viral suppression among adults initiating HIV treatment in Tanzania: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial.","authors":"Prosper F Njau, Emmanuel Katabaro, Solis Winters, Amon Sabasaba, Kassim Hassan, Babuu Joseph, Hamza Maila, Janeth Msasa, Carolyn A Fahey, Laura Packel, William H Dow, Nicholas P Jewell, Nzovu Ulenga, Natalino Mwenda, Sandra I McCoy","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00149-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00149-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Small incentives could improve engagement in HIV care. We evaluated the short-term and longer-term effects of financial incentives for visit attendance on viral suppression among adults initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Tanzania.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In a type 1 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study, we randomised (1:1) 32 primary care HIV clinics in four Tanzanian regions to usual care (control group) or the intervention (usual care plus ≤6 monthly incentives [22 500 Tanzanian Shillings, about US$10, each], conditional on visit attendance). Adults (aged ≥18 years) initiating ART (<30 days) who owned a mobile phone and had no plans to transfer to another facility were eligible. The primary outcome was retention on ART with viral suppression (<1000 copies per mL) at 12 months. Secondary outcomes included retention on ART with viral suppression at 6 months and viral suppression at 6 months and 12 months using a lower threshold (<50 copies per mL). Intent-to-treat analysis and a cluster-based permutation test were used to evaluate the effect of financial incentives on outcomes. This trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04201353, and is completed.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Between May 28, 2021, and March 8, 2022, 1990 participants (805 male and 1185 female) were enrolled in the study. 1059 participants were assigned to the intervention group and 931 participants were assigned to the control group. Overall, 1536 (88%) participants at 6 months and 1575 (83%) at 12 months were on ART with viral suppression. At 12 months, 6 months after the intervention ended, 866 (85%) participants in the intervention group compared with 709 (81%) in the control group had viral loads less than 1000 copies per mL (adjusted risk difference [aRD] 4·4 percentage points, 95% CI -1·4 to 10·1, permutation test p=0·35). At 6 months, 858 participants (90%) in the intervention group were on ART with viral loads less than 1000 copies per mL compared with 678 (86%) in the control group (aRD 5·1 percentage points, 95% CI 1·1 to 9·1, permutation test p=0·06). Effects were larger at 6 months and 12 months with the lower threshold for viral suppression, and there was significant effect heterogeneity by region. Adverse events included 106 deaths (56 in the control group and 50 in the intervention group), none related to study participation.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>Short-term incentives for visit attendance had modest, short term benefits on viral suppression and did not harm retention or viral suppression after discontinuation. These findings suggest the need to understand subgroups who would most benefit from incentives to support HIV care.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>National Institute of Mental Health.</p><p><strong>Translation: </strong>For the Swahili translation of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.</p>","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":"e586-e597"},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11457171/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00205-4
P J Smith, H Thirumurthy
{"title":"Incentivising engagement in care among people with HIV.","authors":"P J Smith, H Thirumurthy","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00205-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00205-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":"e569-e570"},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00206-6
Phumla Sinxadi, Gary Maartens
{"title":"Where does doravirine fit in current antiretroviral therapy?","authors":"Phumla Sinxadi, Gary Maartens","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00206-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00206-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":"11 9","pages":"e568-e569"},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-09-01Epub Date: 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00182-6
Elena Sendagorta, Pedro Herranz
{"title":"Optimising anal cancer screening through risk stratification.","authors":"Elena Sendagorta, Pedro Herranz","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00182-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00182-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":"e570-e572"},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-08-29DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00232-7
{"title":"Correction to Lancet HIV 2024; published online Aug 16. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00173-5.","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00232-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00232-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142113754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00181-4
Catherine Lucas
{"title":"All roads lead to Westminster: the infected blood scandal.","authors":"Catherine Lucas","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00181-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00181-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142047352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00180-2
A M Hatcher, L Kimbo
{"title":"Addressing partner violence to end infant HIV infection.","authors":"A M Hatcher, L Kimbo","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00180-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00180-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":"e500-e501"},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141767738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-05DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00125-5
Monica Gandhi, David V Glidden, Deepalika Chakravarty, Guohong Wang, Charlene Biwott, Peter Mogere, Gakuo Maina, Irene Njeru, Catherine Kiptinness, Phelix Okello, Matthew A Spinelli, Purba Chatterjee, Jennifer Velloza, Vallery Ogello, Andrew Medina-Marino, Hideaki Okochi, Nelly R Mugo, Kenneth Ngure
{"title":"Impact of a point-of-care urine tenofovir assay on adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among women in Kenya: a randomised pilot trial.","authors":"Monica Gandhi, David V Glidden, Deepalika Chakravarty, Guohong Wang, Charlene Biwott, Peter Mogere, Gakuo Maina, Irene Njeru, Catherine Kiptinness, Phelix Okello, Matthew A Spinelli, Purba Chatterjee, Jennifer Velloza, Vallery Ogello, Andrew Medina-Marino, Hideaki Okochi, Nelly R Mugo, Kenneth Ngure","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00125-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00125-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adherence challenges with oral tenofovir-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are common. We developed a point-of-care assay to objectively assess tenofovir in urine and conducted a pilot trial examining the impact of counselling informed by use of this urine assay on long-term PrEP adherence.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This randomised trial enrolled women not in serodiscordant partnerships 3 months after PrEP initiation at the Kenya Medical Research Institute to compare standard-of-care adherence counselling versus counselling informed by the urine assay (urine-test counselling group) every 3 months for 12 months. In the standard of care group, urine samples were stored and tested at study end without participant feedback. Here we report the adherence primary outcome of hair concentrations of tenofovir at 12 months as a long-term metric (undetectable levels defined long-term non-adherence), as well as urine concentrations of tenofovir at each visit as a short-term adherence metric and acceptability of the assay assessed by quantitative surveys. Data were analysed by randomisation group. This completed trial was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03935464).</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>From March 17, 2021 to Jan 18, 2022 we enrolled 49 women in the urine-test counselling group and 51 in the standard of care group; retention was 86 (86%) of 100. Nine (21%) of 42 in the urine-test counselling group had hair samples at 12 months with tenofovir concentrations below the limit of quantification compared with 15 (37%) of 41 in the standard of care group. The relative odds of long-term non-adherence in the standard of care group compared with urine-test counselling were 3·53 (95% CI 1·03-12·03; p=0·044). Pre-intervention, urine tenofovir was detectable in 65% in the urine-test counselling group and 71% in the standard of care group (p=0·68). At 12 months, 31 (72%) of 43 in the intervention group had detectable urine tenofovir compared with 19 (45%) of 42 in the standard of care group (p=0·0015). 40 (93%) of 43 participants liked the test very much and only one disliked the test. One participant in the standard of care group was withdrawn at the 6-month visit due to HIV seroconversion.</p><p><strong>Interpretation: </strong>A low-cost urine tenofovir assay to inform PrEP counselling resulted in improvement in both short-term and long-term metrics of adherence. This urine tenofovir assay could help to improve long-term PrEP adherence.</p><p><strong>Funding: </strong>National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and National Institutes of Health.</p>","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":"e522-e530"},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11376217/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141560115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-05DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00176-0
Iuri da Costa Leite, Daniel Savignon Marinho
{"title":"Low-cost point-of-care urine test to enhance PrEP adherence.","authors":"Iuri da Costa Leite, Daniel Savignon Marinho","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00176-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00176-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":"e497-e498"},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141560116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lancet HivPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00123-1
Deborah Goldstein, Jepchirchir Kiplagat, Charlotte Taderera, Erin R Whitehouse, Cleophas Chimbetete, Sylvester Kimaiyo, Sarah Urasa, Stella-Maria Paddick, Catherine Godfrey
{"title":"Person-centred care for older adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.","authors":"Deborah Goldstein, Jepchirchir Kiplagat, Charlotte Taderera, Erin R Whitehouse, Cleophas Chimbetete, Sylvester Kimaiyo, Sarah Urasa, Stella-Maria Paddick, Catherine Godfrey","doi":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00123-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2352-3018(24)00123-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>More than a fifth of people living with HIV in the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief-supported programmes are older individuals, defined as aged 50 years and older, yet optimal person-centred models of care for older adults with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, including screening and treatment for geriatric syndromes and common comorbidities associated with ageing, remain undefined. This Position Paper explores the disproportionate burden of comorbidities and geriatric syndromes faced by older adults with HIV, with a special focus on women. We seek to motivate global interest in improving quality of life for older people with HIV by presenting available research and identifying research gaps for common geriatric syndromes, including frailty and cognitive decline, and multimorbidity among older people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. We share two successful models of holistic care for older people with HIV that are ongoing in Zimbabwe and Kenya. Lastly, we provide policy, research, and implementation considerations to best serve this growing population.</p>","PeriodicalId":48725,"journal":{"name":"Lancet Hiv","volume":" ","pages":"e552-e560"},"PeriodicalIF":12.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141601979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}