Modeling antiretroviral therapy adherence among people living with HIV: a cross-sectional study at Pantang Hospital, Ghana
Eric Nyarko, Irene A. Kretchy, Grace Lovia Allotey-Babington, Adwoa Oforiwaa Kwakye, Benjamin Tagoe, Nathaniel Opoku Atuahene, Xoese Kalenu, Augustina Koduah, Sheila Gyasi Nimako, Kwabena FM Opuni, Seth Kwabena Amponsah · 2026
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Eric Nyarko and colleagues model HIV treatment adherence at Pantang Hospital in Accra, Ghana, in a 2026 study. Antiretroviral therapy only works when people take it steadily, and missed doses remain a major barrier in sub-Saharan Africa. Between July and October 2025, the team surveyed 151 randomly sampled patients receiving HIV care at the hospital, asking about daily habits around their medication. They then trained six machine learning models to rank what predicts poor adherence.
Participants had a median age of 42, and three quarters were women. Slips were common: 66.9 percent forgot doses, 64.2 percent admitted carelessness, and 85.4 percent stopped when they felt worse. An Elastic Net model performed best overall. The strongest warning signs were skipping medication over the past weekend and missing doses six to ten times in the past week. These concrete habits, the authors argue, give clinics practical targets for adherence support, which should also cut community transmission risk.
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| CREATOR | Eric Nyarko, Irene A. Kretchy, Grace Lovia Allotey-Babington, Adwoa Oforiwaa Kwakye, Benjamin Tagoe, Nathaniel Opoku Atuahene, Xoese Kalenu, Augustina Koduah, Sheila Gyasi Nimako, Kwabena FM Opuni, Seth Kwabena Amponsah |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35195 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |