OBJECTIVES
By the end of this unit, participants will be able to:
- Define what adherence means
- Identify common reasons for adherence challenges
- Brainstorm questions to ask to assess adherence
- List behaviors and/or activities that may indicate non-adherence
- Identify some of the barriers that providers, agencies, and the community at large have built that make it difficult to adhere
- Recognize the types of laboratory tests used to monitor a person’s HIV care and treatment
- Understand why laboratory tests are important in monitoring health and how they can be used to manage care
- Understand the concept of drug resistance
- Understand what types of drug resistance testing are available and when they are used