Alcohol Use and Ethnicity Independently Predict Antiretroviral Therapy Nonadherence Among Patients Living with HIV/HCV Coinfection.
Omar T SimsChia-Ying ChiuRasheeta ChandlerPamela MeltonKaiying WangCaroline RicheyMichelle OdlumPublished in: Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities (2019)
Behavioral health providers are encouraged to incorporate alcohol use reduce interventions in HIV clinical settings to reduce ART nonadherence among patients living with HIV/HCV coinfection. Additionally, public health professionals and researchers, and clinicians are encouraged to use inductive methods to discover why ART nonadherence disproportionately impacts African American patients living with HIV/HCV coinfection and to develop approaches that are sensitive to those respective barriers.
Keyphrases
- antiretroviral therapy
- hepatitis c virus
- human immunodeficiency virus
- hiv infected
- african american
- hiv positive
- hiv aids
- hiv infected patients
- end stage renal disease
- healthcare
- chronic kidney disease
- newly diagnosed
- mental health
- public health
- palliative care
- peritoneal dialysis
- emergency department
- physical activity
- climate change
- patient reported
- hiv testing
- social media
- electronic health record