The second pathway through which NGOs have facilitated an adherence-competent context was through their child-centred and community-based counselling and HIV testing programmes.
To conclude, this paper has identified five sets of key social actors in promoting adherence competent contexts for children on ART: children themselves, their guardians, community members and the external agencies – including both health service providers and NGOs – that provide invaluable services to the children and their guardians.
The process involves initially sorting the transcripts according to their own 'voices', maintaining adherence to both context, and setting of data collection.
We have outlined five networks (community, NGOs, service providers, the guardians and children themselves) that have facilitated adherence within the context of these two favourable developments, even in wider social contexts of great economic and political uncertainty.
"In a global context, adherence to religion is growing rather than decreasing.
Each session addresses HIV medication adherence in the context of modules for activity scheduling, cognitive restructuring, problem-solving training, and relaxation training/diaphragmatic breathing.
This paper presents results from a qualitative exploration of patients' attitudes towards the collaborative care model and how individuals with bipolar disorder perceive treatment adherence within the context of the collaborative care model.
The transferability of knowledge is linked to the degree of adherence to the context in which it was generated: it can be sticky and difficult to transfer or slippery, even if it involves the marginal costs of dissemination and replication (Brown and Duguid 1998).
To assess CPT adherence in the context of a variable duration of TB treatment, we expressed the number of monthly CPT dose pouches picked up—as recorded on TB treatment cards as a proportion of the number of months which an HIV-infected TB patient was alive and on treatment (rounded down to the nearest month).
To support decision making relating to cervical cancer screening in South Africa, this analysis focuses on the relationship of monetary expenditure and a key element of prevention effectiveness – adherence – in the context of a large community-based screening program in resource poor, peri-urban areas near Cape Town.
