Intensive adherence counseling with HIV treatment improves patient outcomes
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Intensive adherence counseling around the time of HIV treatment initiation significantly reduces poor adherence and virologic treatment failure in sub-Saharan Africa whereas using an alarm device has no effect, according to a study in this week's PLoS Medicine by Michael Chung from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and colleagues.