‘Clinicians need to screen their HIV patients for depression and consider possible treatments for the condition because it adversely affects adherence to antiretroviral therapy, according to a researcher speaking here at the 16th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2006).

“Physicians should be worried about depression in their patients,” said the study’s principal investigator Michael Horberg, internist and infectious disease specialist, and director, HIV/AIDS policy, quality improvement, and research, Kaiser Permanente and Group Health Cooperative, Oakland, California. “Depression has a negative impact on adherence and needs to be screened for in this population and treated.”‘

Read more at Depression Reduces Adherence to HIV Therapy: Presented at AIDS 2006

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