Food Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study from a Cohort of HIV Clients in Uganda

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the food security of people in low-income countries. This is important for people living with HIV (PLWH) because HIV medication should be taken with food to avoid side-effects. We used survey data (n = 314) and qualitative interviews (n = 95) to longitudinally explore...

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Published in:AIDS and behavior 2023-07, Vol.27 (7), p.2216-2225
Main Authors: MacCarthy, Sarah, Wagner, Zachary, Saya, Uzaib, Ghai, Ishita, Karamagi, Yvonne, Odiit, Mary, Mukasa, Barbara, Linnemayr, Sebastian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antiretroviral drugs
Clinical trials
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Developing countries
Drugs
Employment
Food
Food Insecurity
Food security
Food Supply
Health Psychology
HIV
HIV Infections - drug therapy
HIV Infections - epidemiology
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Infectious Diseases
LDCs
Low income areas
Low income groups
Meals
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mixed methods research
Original Paper
Pandemics
Polls & surveys
Public Health
Qualitative analysis
Regression analysis
Regression models
Side effects
Support networks
Support systems
Surveys
Uganda - epidemiology
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the food security of people in low-income countries. This is important for people living with HIV (PLWH) because HIV medication should be taken with food to avoid side-effects. We used survey data (n = 314) and qualitative interviews (n = 95) to longitudinally explore how the pandemic impacted food insecurity among PLWH in Kampala, Uganda. Prior to March 2020, 19.7% of respondents were food insecure. Our regression models estimate that food insecurity rose by 9.1 percentage points in our first round of surveys (June–September 2020; p 
ISSN:1090-7165
1573-3254
DOI:10.1007/s10461-022-03953-6