Open AccessNonadherence to antiretroviral therapy among people living with HIV/AIDS attending two tertiary care hospitals in district of northern India
Author(s) -
Mukesh Shukla,
Monika Agarwal,
Jai Vir Singh,
Anil Kumar Tripathi,
Anand Srivastava,
Vijay Kumar Singh
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.170970
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , logistic regression , pill , confidence interval , antiretroviral therapy , cross sectional study , family medicine , multivariate analysis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , viral load , nursing , pathology
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy is a principal predictor for the success of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment. It remains as a challenge to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) treatment and care with the widespread of the associated risks. Therefore, study aims to assess nonadherence level and factors associated with nonadherence to ART among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA).