Antiretroviral treatment as catalyst for achieving AIDS competence in local South African communities: developing a multidimensional intervention to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. University of Antwerp
Background: Although the initial outcomes of the South African public antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme are promising, there are still important challenges to be met to successfully fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the long term, namely (1) HIV/AIDS care as chronic disease care requires psychosocial care on top of biomedical care to ensure long-term adherence and patient retention and (2) HIV incidence levels need to drop by positively ...