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Pill Box Organizers Handy Tool For HIV-Afflicted
While this population has often been regarded as having difficulty with adherence, the authors write, adherence problems are by no means limited to patients with low socioeconomic status.
Lead author Maya Petersen, PhD, from the Berkeley School of Public Health, adds, Incomplete adherence is a major problem that prevents people from realizing the full benefits of a wide range of treatments for chronic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Thus, the findings of this study have the potential to inform a wide range of diseases, not just HIV.
It would be interesting to explore whether changes in packaging or delivery of antiretrovirals and other drugs could be used to reproduce the benefits of pill box organizer use. One model to consider is oral contraceptive therapy, which is routinely dispensed using labeled blister packs, a kind of pre-packaged version of a pill box. Antiretroviral regimens are generally more complicated, but a modification of this general model at either a pharmacy or manufacturer level might be possible, with wide-ranging patient benefits.
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