Are Financial Incentives Appropriate Means of Encouraging Medication Adherence Among People Living With HIV?

BACKGROUND Financial incentives have been shown to improve antiretroviral (ARV) adherence for people living with HIV, but scholars argued that this commodifies treatment and debated the ethics of doing so. This article summarizes research on ethical processes factors involved in an intervention successfully improved ARV among socially vulnerable HIV. METHODS Thirty qualitative interviews were conducted participants field notes documenting organizational analyzed. The protocol utilized a preexisting framework assess using financial motivate adherence. RESULTS supported service provision by (1) establishing strengthening client agency, (2) revising protocols prioritize adherence, (3) promoting resource redistribution. CONCLUSIONS incentives, when embedded wrap-around services, innovative client-centered processes, justice orientation, constitute requiring investigation.