Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2020 Jul;24(7):2054–2061. doi: 10.1007/s10461-019-02769-1

Table III:

Participants’ past experience with HIV medications

Question Experience with HIV medications Cure Remission labeled “cure” Remission Overall

When did you start taking your current HIV medicines? Medication started more than 5 years ago, % 63 69 59 63
How many individual pills do you take each day to treat your HIV? No more than 1 HIV pill, % 52 51 51 51
How many times have you had to change your HIV medicines? Medication was changed 1 time or less, % 51 59 52 54
How hard would it be for you to change to different HIV medicines? 6-point Likert-Scale (1 = very hard, 6 = very easy), Mean 4.4 4.3 4.1 4.3
How worried would you be to change to different HIV medicines? 6-point Likert-Scale (1 = very worried, 6 = Not worried at all), Mean 4.0 3.9 3.7 3.9