This study was an MD thesis for N.E.V at the Faculty of Medicine of Universidad Nacional de Piura, Piura, Peru. Authors would like to thank the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de Perú (CONCYTEC) for supporting data presentation as Oral Communication at the 14th World Congress of Gynecological Endocrinology, March 3, 2010, Florence, Italy.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the association between the intensity of menopausal symptoms and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) adherence in middle-aged women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 313 Peruvian women with HIV infection (age 40-59 years) were surveyed and classified as adherent or non-adherent to HAART based on the Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence Evaluation Questionnaire. The intensity of menopausal symptoms was assessed with the Menopause Rating Scale, and categorized as none, mild, moderate, and/or severe. Age, sexual orientation, used HAART scheme, time since HIV diagnosis, menopausal status, risk of depression, and presence of comorbidities were also assessed. Poisson generalized linear models with robust variance were performed in order to estimate crude prevalence ratios (PRs) and adjusted ...