Poor Adherence To Treat Aids And Hiv Patients

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Adherence: Keeping Up With Your Meds

Introduction Things to Consider Planning Building a Support Network Committing to Staying on Therapy Final Thoughts Strategies for Adherence Introduction Staying on a treatment regimen is difficult under the best of conditions. Even doctors and nurses find it difficult to take a simple course of antibiotics as directed. Taking HIV therapy sometimes requires a person to take a dozen or more pills a day, with specific timing and diet...

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Poor adherence

Dear Doctor, my partner has stop taking her meds for about 3 weeks now. She has been on the current regimen for 2 months. In the past she took herself off the medication. I am worried that she might develop multi-drug resistance. What are the...

Response from Renslow Sherer, M.D.

University of Chicago Hospitals

The implications are serious, and over time, if the behavior continues, they can even be life threatening. It is urgent that you and she acknowledge the problem and seek help from her doctor and her health care team to address it. Your role is... Read more »

Is poor mental health due to progression of AIDS

I am a 48yo male homosexual. I was diagnosed with AIDS in March '97 when I was hospitalized with PCP. I had never been tested before that. In reviewing my history, I believe that I have been HIV+ at least since the mid 80's. My lastest...

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W.

Psychotherapist and Author

First just describe how you are feeling to your ID doctor and ask for a referral to a psychiatrist who is also a specialist in HIV. It is difficult but necessary to obtain a good diagnostic assessment of how much of the problem is physiological and... Read more »

Please refute this article regarding adherence and resistance

Dr. Young,Ouch. I though adherence was the key to maintaining the advantage against hiv. But this article points that good patients do worse then problem patients. Ouch, please can you refute this study.Abigail Good Pill-Taking Patients -- Not...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

It's not my job to refute published articles, but rather to comment on them.I'm quite aware of the UCSF study's results and actually agree with the findings-- bear in mind that this study looks at the kind of resistance seen among... Read more »

Over the rest of the life of a patient with HIV, how much does it cost to treat a patient on the average?

Over the rest of the life of a patient with HIV, how much does it cost to treat a patient on the average?...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi. Thank you for your question.I am not aware of any recent study that has looked into the overall costs ofHIV care and treatment. Such studies have been done in the past, howevercosts have radically changed just in the past year or so. This is... Read more »

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Which 3 states gives best HIV treatment to poor

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My son want to leave massachusetts. They give grea6t care to HIV patients and medical coverage run by the state. Which other states in the the midatlantic or southeast also are known for the best care for the poor. He doesnt like to work alot. Read more »

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Boon for HIV & AIDS patients - Yoga & Pranayama - Swami Ramdev
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My dear Brothers & Sisters,

Re: Great ancient Indian science "Yoga & Pranayama" is a boon for HIV & AIDS patients.

I am impressed by the Great job, being... Read more »

compliance/adherence

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We have developed an adherence device that is helping many people living with HIV. by reminding them each and every time when and how to take their medication. Imagine never again forgeting to take your meds regardless of the complexity of the... Read more »

Adherence to medication survey

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Thank you for the support of our study on quality of life with HIV. We had many thoughts on medication and found few answers to give regarding reserach so we are working at understanding why people take (or don't take) medications (e.g.... Read more »

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