Improving the adherence to antiretroviral therapy, a difficult but essential task for a successful HIV treatment—clinical points of view and practical considerations

SA Iacob, DG Iacob, G Jugulete - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
HIV infection is responsible for one the most devastating human pandemics. The advent of
antiretroviral therapy has changed the course of the pandemic and saved millions of lives …

The effectiveness of interventions using electronic reminders to improve adherence to chronic medication: a systematic review of the literature

M Vervloet, AJ Linn, JCM van Weert… - Journal of the …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background Many patients experience difficulties in adhering to long-term treatment.
Although patients' reasons for not being adherent are diverse, one of the most commonly …

Defining success with HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: a prevention-effective adherence paradigm

JE Haberer, DR Bangsberg, JM Baeten, K Curran… - Aids, 2015 - journals.lww.com
To date, six clinical trials have explored the efficacy of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
against HIV infection using oral tenofovir and/or emtricitabine/tenofovir [1–6]. Efficacy ranged …

Assessing medication adherence: options to consider

A Lehmann, P Aslani, R Ahmed, J Celio… - International journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Background Adherence to chronic therapy is a key determinant of patient health outcomes in
chronic disease. However, only about 50% of patients adhere to chronic therapy. One of the …

[HTML][HTML] Technologies for medication adherence monitoring and technology assessment criteria: narrative review

M Mason, Y Cho, J Rayo, Y Gong… - JMIR mHealth and …, 2022 - mhealth.jmir.org
Background Accurate measurement and monitoring of patient medication adherence is a
global challenge because of the absence of gold standard methods for adherence …

Mobile health devices as tools for worldwide cardiovascular risk reduction and disease management

JD Piette, J List, GK Rana, W Townsend, D Striplin… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
We examined evidence on whether mobile health (mHealth) tools, including interactive
voice response calls, short message service, or text messaging, and smartphones, can …

Effects of mirtazapine for methamphetamine use disorder among cisgender men and transgender women who have sex with men: a placebo-controlled randomized …

PO Coffin, GM Santos, J Hern, E Vittinghoff… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Methamphetamine use is increasingly prevalent and associated with HIV
transmission. A previous phase 2a study of mirtazapine demonstrated reductions in …

Approaches to objectively measure antiretroviral medication adherence and drive adherence interventions

MA Spinelli, JE Haberer, PR Chai… - Current Hiv/Aids …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Traditional methods to assess antiretroviral adherence, such as
self-report, pill counts, and pharmacy refill data, may be inaccurate in determining actual pill …

Research in the time of coronavirus: continuing ongoing studies in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

P Saberi - AIDS and Behavior, 2020 - Springer
A novel human coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) was identified in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, resulting in a pandemic [1]. Due to the …

A scoping review of studies comparing the medication event monitoring system (MEMS) with alternative methods for measuring medication adherence

M El Alili, B Vrijens, J Demonceau… - British journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Different methods are available for measuring medication adherence. In this paper, we
conducted a scoping review to identify and summarize evidence of all studies comparing the …