A pilot study by NIMR’s Grant Monitoring and Evaluation unit shows that adherence failure to ARVs could be reduced if patients benefit from some form of economic empowerment. Inability of patients to take their medications as prescribed, has been identified as a significant problem in HIV/AIDS management, resulting in viral suppression failure, drug resistance, and treatment failure. Presenting the study titled “Empowerment Models for Improving Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Patients’ Adherence to Antiretroviral Drugs”, at the Institute’s monthly seminar held