New mobile app can help HIV patients follow their medicine schedule

New mobile app can help HIV patients follow their medicine schedule
Researchers have developed a smartphone app that could help improve adherence to medications -- such as antiretroviral therapy (ART) -- among people living with HIV by putting the prevention in their pocket.

Substance use has been found as one of the most reliable predictors of poor adherence to ART, the researchers noted. The researchers found that participants not only found the app easy and convenient to use, they were also willing to provide honest responses to queries and fill the daily adherence report. For participants who reported that they had used alcohol or drugs in the past 24 hours, the app provides a series of follow-up questions that asks as to why they used the substance and where they were when they used it, with a dropdown menu of answer choices. ‘With this app, we can reach out to people with HIV and say, we’ve noticed you’ve been using substances and that seems to be related to the fact that you’ve missed your doses — what can we do to help you? With the app, it is like putting prevention in their pockets,’ Przybyla observed in the paper published in the journal AIDS Research and Treatment . To know more about the factors that increase your risk for HIV, click here.

Source: IANS

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