Table 2.

Interview Guide

1. How are you?

2. How did you travel here today?

3. Tell me a little bit about your medication.

4. When was the last time you missed a dose?

a. Can you tell me about what happened?

5. Describe the experience of getting drugs at the clinic for you.

6. When you were first diagnosed wit HIV and they started you on ARVs, what did they tell you?

a. Was it useful?

7. What challenges do you face?

8. What are your reasons for staying alive?

9. I'm going to read out a list of things. (Slowly read list of symptoms of common mental disorders). Do you ever feel any of these things?

a. Tell me about it.

10. What do you understand by “depression”?

a. What causes it?

b. What can be done for it?

11. We are trying to see if we can give counselling to some people who are struggling to take their medication. Has counselling been beneficial for you?

a. If not, how can we help improve it?

12. What would be some of the difficulties you would face if you had to come for counselling once a week, for a month?

a. What could make it easier to come?

13. If you wanted to talk about some of the problems you have been facing, what would be the best setting?