Rosa VK, Barcellos NT, Fonseca R, Schuh SS; International Conference on AIDS.

Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. WePeB5907.

PC DST/Aids, Porto Alegre, Brazil

The Coordination DST/Aids of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of Brasil, implanted a pilot project of adhesion to the treatment anti-retroviral (ARV) in pregnant woman in the dependences of the Hospital Femina placed in the city of Porto Alegre, capital of the State. The amount of capsules/tablets that the patients ingest daily and the necessary rigidity so that the medications have the wanted effects, they turn the patient a hostage of an exhaustive daily task that oscillates among the good adhesion to the treatment and the indifference. The objective is to try to commit the patient with its therapy and to motivate it to stick to the treatment appropriately reducing the maternal-infantile transmission. For that, we set up what we started to call "Group of Adhesion". These are weekly meetings composed of 8 modules where the pregnant woman can obtain information on the aspects of the treatment and varied subjects. To monitor the results of our work we observed two inserts of exam of CD4 and two of Viral Load. It is expected an increase of the patient's organism defenses and decrease of the Viral Load. Most of the patients makes use of Zidovudine, Lamivudine and Nelfinavir. Of the patients that frequented the Group of Adhesion 90% they obtained improvement in its exams (CD4 and Viral Load). We can conclude that the Group of Adhesion had success in respect to the adhesion to the treatment once the patients started to do correct use of the drugs because they understood the therapy. The improvement in the results of the exams can be consequence of the associated action of combined ARV therapies and an more adapted administration of the medications. In spite of the small number of pregnant woman accompanied to the moment, the results are promising, since many of them demonstrated interest in continuing in the group after the gestation.

Publication Types:

• Meeting Abstracts

Keywords:

• Brazil
• Drug Therapy, Combination
• Female
• HIV-1
• Humans
• Lamivudine
• Nelfinavir
• Retroviridae
• Viral Load
• Zidovudine
• drug therapy
• therapy

Other ID:

• GWAIDS0012501

UI: 102249999

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