ArticleBMC infectious diseases2024
Adherence of healthcare providers to Enhanced Adherence Counseling (EAC) intervention protocol in West Amhara Public Health Facilities, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023: mixed method evaluation.
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- Community-based enhanced adherence counseling among people living with HIV in Ethiopia: outcomes and key predictors of viral suppression.AIDS research and therapy · 2025Article
- Identifying care gaps along the HIV treatment failure cascade: A multistate analysis of viral load monitoring, re-suppression, and regimen switches in Zambia.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn Ethiopia, there were an estimated 670,906 people living with the Human Immune Virus (HIV). Implementing an HIV test and treat strategy and rapid scale-up of anti-retroviral treatment (ART) provided health facilities increased the number of the number of people living with HIV/AIDS. In the same way, the expansion of viral load monitoring in these health facilities and poor adherence to ART increase the number of high-viral load (HVL) patients. To alleviate this problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended EAC intervention for HVL patients. Therefore, the aim of this research was to determine the level of healthcare providers' adherence to the EAC intervention protocol and explore barriers and facilitators of the intervention in West Amhara, Northwest Ethiopia.
methodDescriptive cross-sectional study design with concurrent mixed-method evaluation was employed. The adherence dimension, with its sub-dimensions of content, coverage, frequency, and duration of the EAC intervention, was used with sixteen indicators. A total of 20 high-case-load public health facilities and 173 HVL patients were included in our study. Quantitative data was entered into Epi Info and exported to SPSS version 25 for analysis. Descriptive statistics are analyzed in terms of frequencies, percentages, variances, and means and presented as narrations, frequency tables, graphs, and charts. Qualitative data were transcribed, translated, coded, and analyzed thematically using Open Code version 4.0 software. The qualitative findings were used to triangulate the quantitative findings.
resultThe average adherence level of health care providers (HCPs) to the EAC intervention protocol was 55.3%, from which content, coverage, frequency, and duration of the intervention contributed 70.3%, 86.3%, 36.9%, and 27.7%, respectively. Most of the intervention contents were delivered during the session, but none of the providers developed a patient adherence plan at the end of the session. All HVL patients were linked and enrolled in the EAC intervention. But only 6% of them were tested for repeat VL.
conclusionThe average adherence level of HCPs to the EAC intervention protocol was very inadequate. The main gap identified was difficulties in completing the EAC intervention sessions based on schedules. Implementing adherence improvement strategies, assigning an adequate number of EAC providers in ART and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) clinics, and allowing sufficient time during EAC sessions are important.
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