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Remembering to Take Your Medications (Adherence)

The Basics | Adherence Tips | Personal Accounts | Research

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Adherence (January 18, 2009)
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From AIDS InfoNet
Treatment Adherence (August 15, 2006)
The importance of taking meds.
From AIDS Treatment Data Network
Adherence: Keeping Up With Your Meds (May 2008)
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From Project Inform

The Basics

100 Questions & Answers About HIV and AIDS -- Part 6: Starting Treatment (2008)
An excerpt from a book by Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H., responding to some of the most common questions that newly diagnosed people have about HIV.
From Jones and Bartlett Publishers
HIV/AIDS Medication Compliance: How Social Support Works (September/October 2007)
In Social Work Today
Adherence to HIV Antiretroviral Therapy (January 2006)
A clinical overview from an online textbook of HIV disease from the University of California San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital.
From HIV InSite
Ten Things You Can Do to Adhere to Your Medication Schedule (2005)
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In Ten Simple Things You Can Do ..., from Body Positive
Mental Health and Substance Use Affect Adherence (May 20, 2003)
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From PositiveWords
The Effects of Club Drugs on Adherence to HAART (December 2002)
In IAPAC Monthly, from International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care

Adherence Tips

Strategies to Improve Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy (PDF) (November 3, 2008)
An excerpt from the official U.S. HIV treatment guidelines for adults and adolescents. For the full guidelines, click here (PDF).
From AIDSinfo
Tips for Initiating and Adhering to Your First Antiretroviral Regimen (Winter 2005/2006)
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In Body Positive, from Body Positive

Personal Accounts

Living With HIV -- A Survivor's Perspective (November/December 2001)
David Morris has been HIV-positive for 17 years and has survived many grueling drug regimens.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Reduced Viral Load vs. Quality of Life (February 2000)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
Going on Holiday (April 1999)
The author takes a drug holiday, with good results (so far).
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
Maintaining HIV Therapies, Adherence Conference Excerpts: Part 2 of 3 (November 1998)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Starting HIV Therapies: Adherence Conference Excerpts, Part 1 of 3 (October 1998)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
When Taking Meds, Honesty Is the Best Policy (July 1998)
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
One Year on Therapy and Counting ... Doses Taken: 1,460; Doses Missed: 0 (June 1998)
In AIDS Care, from San Francisco General Hospital
How I Learned to Take My Pills (June 1997)
In AIDS Care, from San Francisco General Hospital
Intolerant, Resistant, But Still Complying! (Summer 1997)
In Women Alive Newsletter, from Women Alive

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