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Health systems barriers to adherence in antiretroviral treatment programmes in rural South Africa Dr Brian van Wyk School of Public Health University of the Western Cape Dr Fiona Larkan Centre for Global Health Trinity College Dublin. BACKGROUND.

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  1. Health systems barriers to adherence in antiretroviral treatment programmes in rural South Africa Dr Brian van Wyk School of Public Health University of the Western Cape Dr Fiona Larkan Centre for Global Health Trinity College Dublin

  2. BACKGROUND • South Africa has the largest number of people with HIV: 5.38 million (mid-year estimate Statssa 2011) • Largest public ART programme worldwide: 1.4 million • National HIV counselling and testing campaign aim to test 15 million people by 2011 • This will further increase the number of people needing HIV treatment, care and support.

  3. CHALLENGES • Human resources for health shortages • Late initiation of treatment • Sustaining large numbers of people on treatment and in care • Adherence to treatment in ART programmes

  4. POOR ADHERENCE Patient factors Health servicesfactors Treatment factors Socio-political factors • Psychosocial • Knowledge of treatment • Social support • Disclosure • Attitudes & Beliefs • Substance Use • Travel • Work • Pill burden • Side effects • Formulation of • Drugs • Opportunistic • Infections • Patient Provider relationship • Availability of Drugs • Quality of Care • Waiting Times • Stigma • Discrimination • Unemployment • Structural violence

  5. METHODOLOGY • 3 year ethnographic study in 3 sites in peri-urban and rural Western Cape funded by a Global Health Research Award (GHRA 2007/8) • Aim: to explore barriers to access and adherence to HIV treatment • Methods: qualitative interviews, participant observations • Sample: patients on pre-ART and ART, identified at health facilities and in the community • Key informants: nurses, doctors, pharmacists, home-based carers and community health workers

  6. MAIN FINDINGS: PATTERNS OF ADHERENCE • Unplanned treatment holiday 6 months on/off; 9 months on/ 3 months off • Non-compliant Chaotic adherence • Partying 6 days on/ one day off • Playing 10 weeks on/ 2 weeks off • Secretive skips two or three doses of medication per week

  7. “Sick clinics” • System fails the patient by not providing the necessary support for health service delivery • Moreover, in one case we found the clinic itself to be dysfunctional and hence the primary cause of non-adherence for its patients • Designated district level ART clinic for a large catchment area • Funding ring-fenced for ART clinic which was based on the grounds of regional hospital • Competition for financial resources (and consequent lack of co-operation) between two ‘separate’ facilities • Inability to retain doctors to work in rural environment (5 doctors in 6 months) • Disruption of service to patients – patients sent away and told to ‘come back another day’.

  8. Acknowledgements • Team members: Fiona Larkan, A Jamie Saris, ThatoRamela and Paschaline Stevens • Supported by CDPC • Funded by GHRA 2007/8 (Irish Aidand HRB)

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