ArticleAIDS and behavior2008
Alcohol use, depressive symptoms and the receipt of antiretroviral therapy in southwest Uganda.
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51 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The prevalence and factors associated with alcohol use disorder among people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Pooled it
- Burden of Depression in Outpatient HIV-Infected adults in Sub-Saharan Africa; Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2020Pooled it
- Association Between Depression and Antiretroviral Therapy Use Among People Living with HIV: A Meta-analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2018Pooled it
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- Access to HIV/AIDS care: a systematic review of socio-cultural determinants in low and high income countries.BMC health services research · 2013Pooled it
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- Efficacy of an enhanced linkage to HIV care intervention at improving linkage to HIV care and achieving viral suppression following home-based HIV testing in rural Uganda: study protocol for the Ekkubo/PATH cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC infectious diseases · 2017Trial
- Depressive symptoms and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation among HIV-infected Russian drinkers.AIDS and behavior · 2014Trial
- Psychosocial functioning and depressive symptoms among HIV-positive persons receiving care and treatment in Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2014Trial
- Alcohol use and its association with HIV risk behaviors among a cohort of patients attending HIV clinical care in Tanzania, Kenya, and Namibia.AIDS care · 2014Trial
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- Ease of marital communication and depressive symptom severity among men and women in rural Uganda: cross-sectional, whole-population study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
- Psychiatric comorbidity and psychosocial stressors among people initiating HIV care in Cameroon.PloS one · 2022Article
- Integration of Alcohol Use Disorder Interventions in General Health Care Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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- PMTCT Adherence in Pregnant South African Women: The Role of Depression, Social Support, Stigma, and Structural Barriers to Care.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2020Article
- Associations between alcohol use and HIV care cascade outcomes among adults undergoing population-based HIV testing in East Africa.AIDS (London, England) · 2020Article
- High Rates of Biomarker-Confirmed Alcohol Use Among Pregnant Women Living With HIV in South Africa and Uganda.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Alcohol use and depressive symptoms are associated with reduced access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the developed world. Whether alcohol use and depressive symptoms limit access to ART in resource-limited settings is unknown. This cross-sectional study examined the association between alcohol use, depressive symptoms and the receipt of ART among randomly selected HIV-positive persons presenting for primary health care services at an outpatient HIV clinic in Uganda. Depressive symptoms were defined by the Hopkins Symptom Checklist and alcohol use was measured through frequency of consumption questions. Antiretroviral use was assessed using a standardized survey and confirmed by medical record review. Predictors of ART use were determined via logistic regression. Among 421 HIV-infected patients, factors associated with the receipt of ART were having at least primary education, having an opportunistic infection in the last 3 months, and not drinking within the last year.
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