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Inventi Impact: Preventive & Social Medicines

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  • Inventi:had/20035/16
    Treatment Buddies Improve Clinic Attendance among Women but Not Men on Antiretroviral\nTherapy in the Nyanza Region of Kenya
    01-Jan-1970 Research 2016 : July - September
    Charles Kibaara, Cinthia Blat, Jayne Lewis-Kulzer, Starley Shade, Patrick Mbullo, Craig R Cohen, Elizabeth A Bukusi

    Background. Kenyan antiretroviral (ART) guidelines encourage treatment buddies (TBy) to maximize treatment adherence. This\nstudy examined the effect of TBys on clinic attendance in men and women on ART. Methods. This retrospective cohort study\nincluded all adult patients initiating ART from August 2007 to December 2011 at four health facilities in Kenya. Data were\nabstracted from electronic medical records and analyzed using Poisson regression. Results. Of 2,430 patients, 2,199 (91%) had a\nTBy. Relationship between TBy and clinic attendance differed in females and males (interaction

    How to Cite this Article
    CC Compliant Citation: Charles Kibaara, Cinthia Blat, Jayne Lewis-Kulzer, et al., â??Treatment Buddies Improve Clinic Attendance among\nWomen but Not Men on Antiretroviral Therapy in the Nyanza Region of Kenya,â? AIDS Research and Treatment, vol. 2016, Article ID\n9124541, 9 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/9124541, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.\n
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