Social and economic barriers to adherence among patients at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia
| dc.contributor.author | Moomba, Kaala | |
| dc.contributor.author | van Wyk, Brian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-09T07:28:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-09T07:28:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Zambia is one of the countries hardest hit by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic with a national HIV prevalence estimated at 14% among those aged 15–49 years in 2012. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been available in public health facilities in Zambia since 2003. By early 2016, 65% of the 1.2 million Zambians living with HIV were accessing ART. While access to ART has improved the lives of people living with HIV globally, the lack of adherence to ART is a major challenge to treatment success globally.This article reports on social and economic barriers to ART adherence among HIV patients being attended to at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Moomba, K., & van Wyk, B. (2019). Social and economic barriers to adherence among patients at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia. African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine, 11(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v11i1.1740 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2071-2936 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v11i1.1740 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/6376 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AOSIS | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adherence | en_US |
| dc.subject | HIV | en_US |
| dc.subject | Treatment | en_US |
| dc.subject | Barriers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social | en_US |
| dc.subject | Economic | en_US |
| dc.title | Social and economic barriers to adherence among patients at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |