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Households in HIV care: designing an intervention to stimulate HIV competency in households in South Africa
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)
Despite the Universal Test and Treat program and widespread antiretroviral treatment rollout, South Africa is still facing HIV prevention and treatment challenges, which are aggravated by human resource shortages in the ...
Social and structural determinants of household support for ART adherence in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
(MPDI, 2020)
Adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a crucial factor in health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLWH). Interventions to support ART adherence are increasingly focused on the household as a source of social ...
HIV/AIDS competent households: Interaction between a health-enabling environment and community-based treatment adherence support for people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
In the context of severe human resource shortages in HIV care, task-shifting and especially
community-based support are increasingly being cited as potential means of providing
durable care to chronic HIV patients. ...
Sinako, a study on HIV competent households in South Africa: a clusterrandomised controlled trial protocol
(Pubmed, 2020)
: With 7.7 million South Africans currently infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 4.8
million currently receiving antiretroviral treatment (ART), the epidemic represents a considerable burden for the
country’s ...
Adapting to, integrating and selfmanaging HIV as a chronic illness: a scoping review protocol
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
The process of adapting to a life with a
chronic illness, is a well-researched phenomenon for
a number of common chronic illnesses. The construct,
adaptation, embeds the notions of integration of the
chronic illness ...
On the road to HIV/AIDS competence in the household: Building a health-enabling environment for people living with HIV/AIDS
(MPDI, 2015)
When aiming to provide chronic disease care within the context of human
resource shortages, we should not only consider the responsibility of the individual person
living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) but also the capacity of ...
Stay at home: The impact of the Covid 19 lockdown on household functioning and art adherence for people living with HIV in three sub districts of Cape Town, South Africa
(Springer, 2022)
In March 2020, the South African government imposed a lockdown to control COVID-19 transmission. Lockdown may afect
people living with HIV’s (PLWH) antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. Data from a cluster randomised ...
A cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a scale to assess illness identity in adults living with a chronic illness in South Africa: A case of HIV
(BMC, 2022)
The chronic illness trajectory and its outcomes are well explained by the concept of illness identity; the extent to which ill individuals have integrated their diagnosed chronic illness into their identity or sense of ...