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A range of individual and collective factors contribute to HIV treatment success or failure among children and adolescents in Senegal, Dr Bernard Taverne at the University of Montpellier and colleagues report in Social Science & Medicine. Structural factors include the geographic accessibility of healthcare, universal health coverage and the availability of psychosocial support. Social factors include the child’s age, family relationships and social representations of HIV. These all influence treatment adherence, which in combination with biological factors such as nutrition and resistance, determines the effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment.
Children living with HIV are less likely to achieve sustained viral load suppression if their caregivers are younger, if their caregivers are not virally suppressed or if the children are on a protease inhibitor-based regimen, the recent INTEREST 2023 conference in Maputo, Mozambique, heard.
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