Should we try to eliminate HIV epidemics by using a ‘Test and Treat’ strategy?
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Increasing survival time decreases the cost-effectiveness of using "test & treat'' to eliminate HIV epidemics.
Treating HIV-infected individuals reduces their viral load, consequently increasing their survival time and decreasing their infectivity. It has been proposed that universal testing and treatment (i.e., universal "test & treat'') could lead to HIV elimination and would be extremely cost-effective. It is now being debated whether to use a universal "test & treat'' approach in the "real-world'' a...
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عنوان ژورنال: AIDS
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0269-9370
DOI: 10.1097/qad.0b013e3283366782