New findings presented at the HIV Research for Prevention 2016 conference currently underway in Chicago, United States have revealed how social harms such as gender-based violence, especially intimate partner violence have a negative effect on adherence. As a result of intimate partner violence, some women under the ASPIRE study stopped using the ring.
The findings presented by the Microbicides Trials Network (MTN) here said of the 2 629 women enrolled in ASPIRE study, a large HIV prevention trial of a monthly vaginal ring, 5 percent (85 participants) reported that they were subject to and feared intimate partner violence.
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