"Grandmothers" in the community may enable HIV-positive individuals to take their prescription drugs.

Published Date: 31 Jan 2024

If the Friendship Bench project provides therapy, people living with HIV who also have common mental health disorders may have a three times higher chance of maintaining a low level of virus through medication.

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