Antiretroviral treatment literacy among HIV voluntary counseling and testing clients in Moshi, Tanzania, 2003 to 2005.
Antiretroviral treatment literacy leads to greater HIV testing and treatment and antiretroviral treatment adherence. Among northern Tanzanian subjects, antiretroviral treatment awareness was only 17%. Factors associated with low antiretroviral treatment literacy included having exchanged money or gifts for sex, living in rural areas, having more than 2 children, and having a primary education only. Previous HIV testing was protective against low antiretroviral treatment literacy. These results support refocusing HIV education efforts and increasing synergy between HIV prevention and treatment programs.
Landman
Keren Z
KZ
Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Thielman
Nathan M
NM
Mgonja
Anna
A
Shao
Humphrey J
HJ
Itemba
Dafrosa K
DK
Ndosi
Evelyn M
EM
Tribble
Alison C
AC
Shao
John F
JF
Bartlett
John A
JA
Crump
John A
JA
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