Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Email: arock post. There was a positive, dose-response relationship between number of pills given to peers in the last 30 days and VS likelihood aPR: 1.
Giving pills may strengthen peer relationships, which may facilitate ART adherence. Female sex workers FSW have Barriers to adherence among FSW living with HIV globally include stigma from HIV clinic providers and partners, substance use, depression, food insecurity, violence, homelessness, and poverty.
ART sharing is a form of ART diversion, the distribution of controlled drugs from an intended user or use to an unintended user or use, encompassing multiple practices such as selling, trading, sharing, recreational misuse, and stealing drugs. Most diversion studies focus on non-sex working people in the U. Trained research assistants obtained voluntary written informed consent from participants, administered the baseline survey, and provided reimbursement.
All consenting participants provided whole blood samples drawn by a clinician to assess baseline CD4 count and viral load following enrollment. Women were eligible if 18 years of age or older, cisgender, reported earning at least half of their income through exchanging sex for money or goods the definition of sex worker used by TB HIV Care , diagnosed with HIV for more than six months, not on ART or on ART for two or more months to ensure time for VS , Zulu or English speaking, not pregnant at the time of enrollment, and not planning to relocate or travel outside of eThekwini for more than two months in the next year.
In two separate questions, participants were asked if they had ever received anti-retroviral medication ARVs from a sex work friend or peer, and if they had ever given or provided their ARVs to an FSW friend or peer.
