2019, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Part A

author(s)
Bharati Batra and Neha Titus

abstract
HIV/AIDS is the greatest health risk the world faces today. Seeing to the magnitude of the problem 39.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide and approximately 2.5 million PLWHAs are in India {According to National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) 2007} and about one in six people (16%) are in need for Antiretroviral Therapy. Therefore aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of instructional module in terms of knowledge gain about adherence to anti retroviral therapy & prevention of re-infection among recently diagnosed HIV positive clients Material and method Pre-experimental design with one group pre and post test was used. A sample size of 40 recently diagnosed HIV positive clients were selected using purposive sampling.