Expanding HAART Treatment to All Currently Eligible Individuals under the 2008 IAS-USA Guidelines in British Columbia, Canada
Viviane D. Lima, Robert S. Hogg, Julio S. G. Montaner · 2010
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Viviane Lima, Robert Hogg and Julio Montaner published this HIV policy modeling study in PLOS ONE in 2010. New global guidelines in 2008 greatly widened who should start HIV therapy. British Columbia faced the question of what full use of them would buy. Its epidemic is concentrated among gay men and people who inject drugs.
The authors built a transmission model comparing treatment coverage levels under the new guidelines against the existing baseline. Scenarios ranged from half to full coverage of everyone medically eligible. Drug costs were counted in Canadian dollars. The model also allowed for the large share of infected people unaware of their status. Lima and colleagues estimate the effects on new infections, illness, and deaths. Their analysis supports treating earlier and wider as both a clinical and a prevention strategy.
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| CREATOR | Viviane D. Lima, Robert S. Hogg, Julio S. G. Montaner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2010 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010991