Brief Report: It's Time to Embed Health-Related Quality of Life Across all Steps of the HIV Care Cascade

Conclusions: HIV care must not only focus on viral suppression but also better recognize the intersecting and multifaceted challenges faced by PLWH when taking HIV treatment and engaging in care. Evaluating HrQoL at each step of the cascade using validated patient-reported outcome and experience measures would assist in systematically tracking and addressing challenges faced by PLWH. Measures chosen through global consensus may facilitate rigorous comparisons across jurisdictions. Adopting a patient-oriented research paradigm will also be crucial for empowering and meaningfully engaging patients throughout the research process.
Source: JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes - Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Epidemiology Source Type: research