Implementation of community-based adherence clubs for stable antiretroviral therapy patients in Cape Town, South Africa

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Grimsrud, Anna ^a   Sharp, Joseph ^a   Kalombo, Cathy ^b   Bekker, Linda Gail ^a   Myer, Landon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b WESTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ART delivery; Community based; Decentralization; Loss to follow up; Models of care; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMMUNITY BASED ADHERENCE CLUB; CONSULTATION; DECENTRALIZATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SELF REPORT; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRUS LOAD; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HIV INFECTIONS; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84931281516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.18.1.19984     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Ford N, Calmy A, Mills EJ. The first decade of antiretroviral therapy in Africa. Global Health. 2011;7:33.
2. Easterbrook PJ, Irvine CJ, Vitoria M, Shaffer N, Muhe LM, Negussie EK, et al. Developing the 2013 WHO consolidated antiretroviral guidelines. AIDS. 2014; 28:S93-100.
3. UNAIDS. Fast-track: ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Geneva: UNAIDS; 2014.
4. Deeks SG, Lewin SR, Havlir DV. The end of AIDS: HIV infection as a chronic disease. Lancet. 2013;382(9903):1525-33.
5. World Health Organization. March 2014 supplement to the 2013 consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection. Recommendations for a public health approach. Geneva: WHO; 2014.
6. Kredo T, Ford N, Adeniyi FB, Garner P. Decentralising HIV treatment in lower-and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013;6:CD009987.
7. Amuron B, Levin J, Birunghi J, Namara G, Coutinho A, Grosskurth H, et al. Mortality in an antiretroviral therapy programme in Jinja, south-east Uganda: a prospective cohort study. AIDS Res Ther. 2011;8:39.
8. Jaffar S, Amuron B, Foster S, Birungi J, Levin J, Namara G, et al. Rates of virological failure in patients treated in a home-based versus a facility-based HIV-care model in Jinja, southeast Uganda: a cluster-randomised equivalence trial. Lancet. 2009;374(9707):2080-9.
9. Kipp W, Konde-Lule J, Rubaale T, Okech-Ojony J, Alibhai A, Saunders DL. Comparing antiretroviral treatment outcomes between a prospective community-based and hospital-based cohort of HIV patients in rural Uganda. BMC Int Health Hum Rights. 2011;11(Suppl 2):S12.
10. Selke HM, Kimaiyo S, Sidle JE, Vedanthan R, Tierney WM, Shen C, et al. Task-shifting of antiretroviral delivery from health care workers to persons living with HIV/AIDS: clinical outcomes of a community-based program in Kenya. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2010;55(4):483-90.
11. Gilks CF, Crowley S, Ekpini R, Gove S, Perriens J, Souteyrand Y, et al. The WHO public-health approach to antiretroviral treatment against HIV in resource-limited settings. Lancet. 2006;368(9534):505-10.
12. Wilkinson LS. ART adherence clubs: a long-term retention strategy for clinically stable patients receiving antiretroviral therapy. S Afr J HIV Med. 2013;14(2):48-50.
13. Bemelmans M, Baert S, Goemaere E, Wilkinson L, Vandendyck M, van Cutsem G, et al. Community-supported models of care for people on HIV treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. Trop Med Int Health. 2014;19(8):968-77.
14. Luque-Fernandez MA, Van Cutsem G, Goemaere E, Hilderbrand K, Schomaker M, Mantangana N, et al. Effectiveness of patient adherence groups as a model of care for stable patients on antiretroviral therapy in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. PLoS One. 2013;8(2):e56088.
15. Bekker L-G, Myer L, Orrell C, Lawn S, Wood R. Rapid scale-up of a community-based HIV treatment service: programme performance over 3 consecutive years in Guguletu, South Africa. S Afr Med J. 2006;96:315-20.
16. Bekker LG, Orrell C, Reader L, Matoti K, Cohen K, Martell R, et al. Antiretroviral therapy in a community clinic-early lessons from a pilot project. S Afr Med J. 2003;93:458-62.
17. Grimsrud A, Kaplan R, Bekker LG, Myer L. Outcomes of a nurse-managed service for stable HIV-positive patients in a large South African public sector antiretroviral therapy programme. Trop Med Int Health. 2014;19(9):1029-39.
18. Lawn SD, Kaplan R, Wood R, Bekker LG. Promoting retention in care: an effective model in an antiretroviral treatment service in South Africa. Clin Infect Dis. 2007;45(6):803.
19. World Health Organization. Everybody's business: strengthening health systems to improve health outcomes: WHO's framework for action. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2007.
20. Grimsrud A, Patten G, Sharp J, Myer L, Wilkinson L, Bekker LG. Extending dispensing intervals for stable patients on ART. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2014;66(2):e58-60.
21. Decroo T, Koole O, Remartinez D, dos Santos N, Dezembro S, Jofrisse M, et al. Four-year retention and risk factors for attrition among members of community ART groups in Tete, Mozambique. Trop Med Int Health. 2014;19(5): 514-21.
22. Ford N, Mills EJ. Simplified ART delivery models are needed for the next phase of scale up. PLoS Med. 2011;8(7):e1001060.
23. Motsoaledi A. Health budget speech by Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, MP, Minister of Health, National Assembly. 2013 [cited 2014 Nov 17]. Available from: http://www.pmg.org.za/briefing/20130515-health-ministers-budget-votespeech-responses-ancifp-and-da
24. Bekker LG, Venter F, Cohen K, Goemare E, Van Cutsem G, Boulle A, et al. Provision of antiretroviral therapy in South Africa: the nuts and bolts. Antivir Ther. 2014;19(Suppl 3):105-16.
25. van Olmen J, Ku GM, Bermejo R, Kegels G, Hermann K, Van Damme W. The growing caseload of chronic life-long conditions calls for a move towards full self-management in low-income countries. Global Health. 2011;7:38.
26. Decroo T, Rasschaert F, Telfer B, Remartinez D, Laga M, Ford N. Community-based antiretroviral therapy programs can overcome barriers to retention of patients and decongest health services in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review. Int Health. 2013;5(3):169-79.
27. Kredo T, Adeniyi FB, Bateganya M, Pienaar ED. Task shifting from doctors to non-doctors for initiation and maintenance of antiretroviral therapy. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014;7:CD007331.
28. Fox MP, Rosen S. Patient retention in antiretroviral therapy programs up to three years on treatment in sub-Saharan Africa, 2007-2009: systematic review. Trop Med Int Health. 2010;15:1-15.
29. Lehmann U, Saunders D. Community health workers: what do we know about them? Geneva: World Health Organization; 2007.
30. Rabkin M, El-Sadr WM. Why reinvent the wheel? Leveraging the lessons of HIV scale-up to confront non-communicable diseases. Glob Public Health. 2011;6(3):247-56.
31. Alamo ST, Colebunders R, Ouma J, Sunday P, Wagner G, Wabwire-Mangen F, et al. Return to normal life after AIDS as a reason for lost to follow-up in a community-based antiretroviral treatment programme. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012;60(2):e36-45.