Unexpected effects of COVID-19 outbreak: adaption of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) delivery policies improved adherence in a population of People Living With HIV (PLWH).

Due to COVID-19, we would have expected a reduction in ART deliveries. Surprisingly, the opposite occurred. The increase of pill-refill rates may be due to different reasons, but we hypothesized that the adaption of delivery policies, with a higher number of packages allowed to be collected, strongly contributed to this result. This study suggests that multi-month dispensing policies may contribute to the improvement of adherence among PLWH.