Barriers and facilitators to viral load suppression among people living with HIV following intensive adherence counseling in Kampala, Uganda : A qualitative study
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We explored the barriers and facilitators to viral load (VL) suppression after three or more intensive adherence counseling (IAC) sessions among adolescents and adults living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on a first-line anti-retroviral therapy (ART) with initially unsuppressed VL in Kampala, Uganda. Using a qualitative study, data were collected through in-depth interviews with people living with HIV (PLHIV) with unsuppressed and suppressed VL and caregivers of younger adolescents living with HIV after three or more IAC sessions. We held key informant interviews with health workers involved in IAC implementation, namely ART/HIV focal persons, IAC Team Leaders, and linkage facilitators. Guided by the socioecological model, we performed content analysis and reported the findings using themes along with the participants' quotes. We studied 24 participants and found the individual-level barriers as forgetting to take HIV medications, high pill burden, medication side effects, a lack of food, and HIV-related psychological distress. Undisclosed HIV status and broken families were the barriers at the interpersonal level. Institutional-level barriers included insufficient HIV and ART counseling. Stigma was considered a community-level barrier while nonadherence to HIV treatment guidelines was a policy-level barrier. Facilitators included personal reminders, knowing the importance of taking treatment, and the ability to deal with side effects of HIV medications at the personal level; treatment support, peer support clubs, and incentivized treatment at the interpersonal level; and mental health support club and explaining during counseling that HIV is a chronic disease at the institutional level. We found an unsuppressed VL after completing IAC was due to several barriers at the personal, interpersonal, health systems, community, and policy levels. Achieving ≥95% VL suppression necessitates tackling the barriers to VL suppression and scaling up the facilitators by HIV control programs.
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Social science & medicine (1982) - 343(2024) vom: 01. Feb., Seite 116595 |
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