Highly active antiretroviral therapy and employment status in Accra, Ghana

Abstract

Objectives: This study investigated the immunologic responses and employment history of highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) patients. Design: We interviewed patients and reviewed medical records to collect demographic, clinical, and employment history while on HAART. Demographic characteristics were tested as predictors of immunological response while on HAART using hierarchical linear models.

Determinants of Virological Response to Antiretroviral Therapy: Socio-Economic Status Still Plays a Role in the Era of cART. Results from the ANRS-VESPA 2 Study, France

“…A recent review of studies on the relationship between employment and HIV treatment found that PLWHIV maintain their treatment more successfully when they have a job than when they do not [34]. On the other hand, it has also been shown that patients who experience treatment success are more likely to gain or maintain employment [35,36]. Even though results in the literature show that adherence is the most plausible mediator, adjustment on that variable generally only reduces the strength of the association between low socio-economic status (including low level of education and unemployment) and HIV treatment outcomes.…”

Evaluation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) provision in an early cohort of patients initiating ART in Ghana

“…In Ghana a limited number of studies have profiled various outcomes in PLHIV taking ART. [ 11 – 13 ] A study on short term outcomes among a sample of PLHIV initiated on treatment as Ghana scaled up ART was undertaken. We present these findings to fill in the gap in the picture of the history of ART provision in Ghana.…”