Barriers to Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Children in Ekurhuleni, South Africa: A Descriptive Study
Palesa Sokazi, Zelda Janse van Rensburg, Wanda Jacobs · 2026
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Palesa Sokazi, Zelda Janse van Rensburg, and Wanda Jacobs wrote a 2026 study cataloguing why children in Ekurhuleni, South Africa, miss doses of HIV therapy. Keeping children on antiretroviral therapy is a daily logistics problem for caregivers. The study surveyed 157 parents, guardians, and caregivers directly.
A cross-sectional questionnaire gathered self-reported barriers, analyzed descriptively rather than by association testing. Roughly a third of caregivers said they were fully informed about why adherence matters; most felt only partially informed. Missed doses were common, reported on one or more days by a substantial share. Only 31.2 percent said they gave the medicine consistently as prescribed. The findings point to information gaps and daily-life friction as the core problems. Support programs for caregivers are the natural remedy the authors imply.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Palesa Sokazi, Zelda Janse van Rensburg, Wanda Jacobs |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |