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Published in: AIDS and Behavior 5/2014

01-10-2014 | Original Paper

The Enabling Effect of Food Assistance in Improving Adherence and/or Treatment Completion for Antiretroviral Therapy and Tuberculosis Treatment: A Literature Review

Authors: Saskia de Pee, Nils Grede, Divya Mehra, Martin W. Bloem

Published in: AIDS and Behavior | Special Issue 5/2014

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Abstract

Socioeconomic costs of HIV and TB and the difficulty of maintaining optimal treatment are well documented. Social protection measures such as food assistance may be required to offset some of the treatment related costs as well as to ensure food security and maintain good health of the affected individual and household. Programmes have started placing greater emphasis on treatment adherence and are looking for proven interventions that can optimize it. This paper looks at the effect of food assistance for enabling treatment adherence and reviews studies that used food assistance to promote adherence. Eight of ten studies found that provision of food can improve adherence and/or treatment completion for HIV care and treatment, ART and TB-DOTS. This indicates that food provision is not only a biological, but also a behavioural intervention, and underscores that unresolved food insecurity can be an impediment to treatment adherence and consequently to good treatment outcomes.
Footnotes
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The term incentive is widely used in much of the literature but for the purposes of this paper the term “enabler” is adopted except when necessary to preserve the language used in referenced publications.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Enabling Effect of Food Assistance in Improving Adherence and/or Treatment Completion for Antiretroviral Therapy and Tuberculosis Treatment: A Literature Review
Authors
Saskia de Pee
Nils Grede
Divya Mehra
Martin W. Bloem
Publication date
01-10-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
AIDS and Behavior / Issue Special Issue 5/2014
Print ISSN: 1090-7165
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3254
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-014-0730-2

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