DIRECTLY ADMINISTERED ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (DAART) FOR DRUG USERS

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• Description:
  DAART for Drug Users is an individual-level intervention. Participants are provided with a pager that is programmed to remind them to report to a mobile Community Health Care Van (CHCV) during weekdays to take their medications. In the CHCV, a DAART specialist observes the patients taking their medications and also provides social support and case management services. Weekend doses are provided on Fridays, and 1-3 days of back-up medication is also provided in case a participant is unable to appear for a DAART visit. Participants are reminded to take evening doses through the pager. Reminders for other scheduled activities, such as medical appointments, are also programmed into the pager. Each patient receives a medication bottle with a MEMS cap to monitor non -observed doses. DAART is provided for 6 consecutive months, and patients are trained to package and selfadminister their medications the month before transferring to complete self-administration of their therapy for an additional 6 months of monitoring.
• Document Type:
  Report
• CIO:
  NCHHSTP
• Division:
  NCHHSTP_DHAP
• Topic:
  PRS Project HIV Compendium
• Collection(s):
  Historical CDC.gov Content
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:29d4778ebee18d349e168c72008386853ea135cc8b3adb3e1ff60b39f3f548e4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/149417/cdc_149417_DS1.pdf
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