Are we ready for long-acting HIV treatment for adolescents?
Adolescents with HIV have worse health outcomes along each step of the HIV care cascade worldwide compared with adults.1 Considerable socioeconomic, behavioural, and developmental differences between adolescents and adults contribute to this health inequity.2 Adolescents with HIV face multiple challenges in initiating and adhering to oral HIV treatment, including being able to independently access confidential health care, dual HIV and sexual and reproductive health stigma, poverty, violence, limited health literacy, risk-taking behaviour, mental health distress, and substance abuse.