Abstract
Health literacy is known to affect vulnerable communities such as persons living with HIV/AIDS. The purpose of this review was to provide a current summary of research on the impact of health literacy on the health of persons living with HIV/AIDS and to address future areas of need. Contemporary studies focused on expanding the reach of health literacy in HIV/AIDS to retention in HIV care, use of technology for assessing and intervening to improve health literacy, and health literacy across the globe, for example. A number of studies did not find health literacy to explain health behaviors whereas other studies supported such a relationship. Future issues relevant to health literacy in HIV/AIDS include the aging of the HIV population and associated comorbidities, studies to understand the role of health literacy in specific populations affected by HIV/AIDS, and the continued need to refine the definition and measurement of health literacy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 295-304 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Current HIV/AIDS Reports |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2013 |
Keywords
- Aging
- AIDS
- Disparities
- Global literacy
- Health literacy
- Health literacy measures
- HIV
- Technological interventions
- Treatment adherence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Virology
- Infectious Diseases