Special Considerations in the Management of HIV-Infected Patients From Minority Communities
Summary
- Biases among providers regarding likely medication adherence may result in failure to treat minority patients for whom ART is indicated[Bogart 2001; Wong 2004]
- Minority race is not a significant independent predictor of lower adherence to ART when confounders such as substance abuse, low health literacy, depression, nondisclosure of HIV, and homelessness are taken into account[Kalichman 1999; Turner 2002; Vervoort 2007; Wong 2007; Stone 2001]
- Such factors may have important bearing on adherence for individual minority patients
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