ShutterstockA review of the evidence for peer support has found that retention in care, antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence and viral suppression may be improved for those involved in peer support programmes compared to those who were not. Dr Rigmor Berg of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health showed that peer support may be helpful for these three outcomes, but found no compelling evidence for the other psychosocial and medical outcomes that they were evaluating.
Peer support programmes are meant to encourage equals to support one another in living with HIV and are well established in HIV care. The aim is to provide social and emotional assistance, help with daily management, access to community resources and ongoing support with a chronic disease. Peer support is well established in many places, but the evidence base for it is limited, so the researchers wanted to assess how effective it really is.
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