Assessing the impact of food insecurity on HIV medication adherence in the context of an integrated care programme for people living with HIV in Vancouver, Canada.

CONCLUSIONS: While food provision may reduce some health-related harms, there remains a relationship between this prevalent experience and suboptimal cART adherence in this integrated care programme. Future studies that elucidate strategies to mitigate food insecurity and its effects on cART adherence among PLHIV in this setting and in other similar environments are necessary.
PMID: 31507259 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Public Health Nutrition - September 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Koehn K, McLinden T, Collins AB, McDougall P, Baltzer-Turje R, Miewald C, Wang L, Li J, Salters KA, Hogg RS, Parashar S Tags: Public Health Nutr Source Type: research