People living with HIV willing to accept increased clinic travel in order to maintain anonymity

In collaboration with partners in South Africa and at LSHTM, the MeSH Consortium has published today a paper entitled "The impact of HIV status on the distance travelled to health facilities and adherence to care - a record-linkage study from rural South Africa" - the results presented indicate that the perceived advantage of experiencing more acceptable care for HIV, by travelling to a distant clinic, outweighs the inconvenience of longer treatment-seeking journeys - those seeking care for HIV were four times more likely to travel to a distant clinic (>5 km from the nearest clinic to home) than those treated for other conditions.