Bull Soc Pathol Exot, 2006, 99, 1, 23-27 DOI : 10.
3185/pathexo2635 23
Les difficultés rencontrées par les malades pour
suivre leur traitement antirétroviral au Centre de
traitement ambulatoire de Libreville, Gabon.
Summary: Difficulties of the patients to...
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Bull Soc Pathol Exot, 2006, 99, 1, 23-27 DOI : 10.
3185/pathexo2635 23
Les difficultés rencontrées par les malades pour
suivre leur traitement antirétroviral au Centre de
traitement ambulatoire de Libreville, Gabon.
Summary: Difficulties of the patients to undergo their ARV treatment at the Libreville outpatient health
center, Gabon.
The therapeutic observance is a real issue of chronic diseases.
This issue is twice as much important
in the case of aids treatment by antiretrovirals as a good observance is essential to avoid emergence
of resistances and to improve patients’ health.
A research was conducted in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, at the ambulatory treatment center of
HIV patients.
The interviews of one hundred patients of the center, under treatment for more than
two months, concerned their problems related to specific drugs intake and have helped to point out
some reasons of non observance.
The first reason refers to side effects inducing many difficulties in regular
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