Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2014

COMPLIANCE OF HIV PATIENTS TO TREATMENT REGIMEN

Eleazar C. I, Udoh I. P, Ohanu M. E, Odoh N. M

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This study was aimed at assessing the attitude and compliance of HIV patients towards their treatment regimen of Antiretroviral Therapies (ARTs). A total of 324 patients were randomly selected from HIV patients assessing treatment from Communicable Disease Control and Research Clinic and questionnaires were administered. Result showed that the incidence of HIV was more prevalent (57.10%) among women. The age groups 30–39 years were predominantly affected. Most (61.4%) of respondents had been positive for > 1year–5 years and 23.1% of the respondents had been on ARTs for > 5 years. About 67.3% had never missed a dose of drug and 80.9% took drugs at the right time. The 41.3% of non–compliant patients complained being busy, followed by forgetfulness (39.7%), the least (7.0%) feared drug reaction. Though most of them were compliant to treatment regimen, this is still not up to the desired 95%–100% compliant rate needed to achieve maximum efficacy. There is need to optimize health education towards HIV and it’s treatment.

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Eleazar C.I, Udoh I.P, Ohanu M.E, Odoh N.M Compliance of HIV Patients to Treatment Regimen Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.9 September 2014

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