Stephen J. Durako

TL;DR: HIV-infected adolescents recruited from 13 US cities into the REACH project, the first large-scale disease progression study of HIV-positive adolescents infected through sexual behaviour or injection drug use, reported low adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy.

TL;DR: Adherence was tied closely with daily routine, which supports the assumption that working closely with adolescents to improve their organizational skills may be necessary to improve adherence in HIV-infected adolescents' adherence to HAART.

TL;DR: There is an urgent need for better interventions to assist adolescents with HIV in adhering to their medication regimens, and failure to maintain adherence was significantly associated with younger age and depression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association of psychological distress and health risk behaviors among HIV-infected adolescents, and found that higher levels of distress would be associated with increased sexual risk behaviors, and increased use of alcohol and drugs.

TL;DR: Higher levels of depression were associated with frequent alcohol use and with unprotected sex at last intercourse, with depressed adolescents significantly more likely to have had unprotected sex than those who were not depressed.