Treatment Literacy/Resources/Conferences

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AIDS 2006 conference

Below is a list of relevant treatment literacy abstracts presented at the AIDS 2006 conference in Toronto, Canada

- Risk Factors for Low HIV Treatment Literacy Among Clients Presenting for Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Moshi, Tanzania
- The role of peer-delivered community development initiatives in building HIV treatment literacy
- An HIV health literacy model for providing non-governmental organizations HIV treatment education to minority communities
- Social support: important strategies to improve antiretroviral (ARV) therapy an experience in Santos Brazil

IAS 2007 conference

Below is a list of relevant treatment literacy abstracts presented at the IAS 2007 conference in Sydney

- The involvement of clients, family and community members lead to good compliance to ART in a resource-poor setting
- Patient education in the therapeutic following-up and the improvement of adherence of HIV-infected patients treated with ARVs in the centre oasis of association african solidarite (Ouagadougou – Burkina Faso)

AIDS 2008 conference

Below is a list of relevant treatment literacy abstracts presented at the AIDS 2008 conference in Mexico

- The impact of CHMT’s Treatment Literacy Programme in its first year
- Improving adherence: treatment literacy and treatment support groups, a tool to improve adherence for people on ART in India
- The Treatment Literacy Programme of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)
- impact of ART awareness on risk behavior among non-patients: evidence from Burkina Faso.