[BOOK][B] Adherence to long-term therapies: evidence for action

World Health Organization - 2003 - apps.who.int
Over the past few decades we have witnessed several phases in the development of
approaches aimed at ensuring that patients continue therapy for chronic conditions for long …

Treatment of medical, psychiatric, and substance-use comorbidities in people infected with HIV who use drugs

FL Altice, A Kamarulzaman, VV Soriano, M Schechter… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
HIV-infected drug users have increased age-matched morbidity and mortality compared with
HIV-infected people who do not use drugs. Substance-use disorders negatively affect the …

Guidelines for improving entry into and retention in care and antiretroviral adherence for persons with HIV: evidence-based recommendations from an International …

MA Thompson, MJ Mugavero, KR Amico… - Annals of internal …, 2012 - acpjournals.org
Description: After HIV diagnosis, timely entry into HIV medical care and retention in that care
are essential to the provision of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). Adherence to ART is …

Treatment and care for injecting drug users with HIV infection: a review of barriers and ways forward

D Wolfe, MP Carrieri, D Shepard - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
We review evidence for effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and coverage of antiretroviral
therapy (ART) for injecting drug users (IDUs) infected with HIV, with particular attention to …

Peer support for the hardly reached: a systematic review

R Sokol, E Fisher - American journal of public health, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Background. Health disparities are aggravated when prevention and care initiatives fail to
reach those they are intended to help. Groups can be classified as hardly reached according …

Peer worker involvement in low-threshold supervised consumption facilities in the context of an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada

MC Kennedy, J Boyd, S Mayer, A Collins, T Kerr… - Social Science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Overdose prevention sites (OPS) are a form of supervised consumption facility that have
been implemented in Vancouver, Canada as an innovative response to an ongoing …

Substance use and mental health correlates of nonadherence to antiretroviral medications in a sample of patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection

JS Tucker, MA Burnam, CD Sherbourne… - The American journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Mental health and substance use problems are common among patients
infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and may impede adherence to …

Peer interventions to promote health: conceptual considerations.

JM Simoni, JC Franks, K Lehavot… - American Journal of …, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Peers have intervened to promote health since ancient times, yet few attempts have been
made to describe theoretically their role and their interventions. After a brief overview of the …

Patient support and education for promoting adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS

S Rueda, LY Park‐Wyllie, A Bayoumi… - Cochrane database …, 2006 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Adherence to prescribed regimens is required to derive maximal benefit from
many highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens in people living with HIV/AIDS …

Implementing peer recovery services for overdose prevention in Rhode Island: An examination of two outreach-based approaches

KM Waye, J Goyer, D Dettor, L Mahoney, EA Samuels… - Addictive …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Rhode Island has the tenth highest rate of accidental drug overdose
deaths in the United States. In response to this crisis, Anchor Recovery Center, a community …