Fig 1.
Flow diagram of studies including barriers and facilitators to anti-retroviral therapy adherence among HIV infected adolescents aged 10 to 19 years living in sub-Saharan Africa.
Table 1.
Overview of included qualitative studies.
Table 2.
Characteristics of included quantitative studies.
Table 3.
Barriers to anti-retroviral therapy adherence among adolescents aged 10 to 19 years living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (Quantitative studies).
Table 4.
Barriers to ART adherence (Qualitative studies).
Table 5.
Facilitators of ART adherence.
Fig 2.
Map showing the studies included in the review.
Fig 3.
Forest plot of ART adherence rate among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Fig 4.
Forest plot of ART adherence interventions among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Fig 5.
Forest plot of viral load suppression and ART adherence barriers among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Fig 6.
Forest plot of viral load suppression and intervention reporting ART adherence barriers among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Fig 7.
Forest plot of unsuppressed viral load and ART adherence barriers among HIV infected adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Fig 8.
Forest plot of ART adherence interventions and unsuppressed viral load among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Fig 9.
Forest of LTFU and ART adherence barriers among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Table 6.
Meta-regression output examining age group and ART adherence.
Fig 10.
Funnel plot of studies reporting ART adherence rate among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Fig 11.
Funnel plot of studies reporting viral load suppression rate among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.
Fig 12.
Funnel plot of studies reporting unsuppressed viral load rate among adolescents aged from 10 to 19 years.