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 |