HIV Treatment as Prevention: Optimising the Impact of Expanded HIV Treatment Programmes
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...To date, this is the first study to systematically review and quantify the ART cascade among FSWs globally, which builds on a limited review already undertaken by the authors [15]....
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...transmitting HIV [15,17], it is crucial to understand the extent to which FSWs currently access ART, and continue ART with good adherence....
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...Ensuring high levels of ART uptake, adherence and retention among FSWs, would provide not only individual benefits to HIV-infected FSWs, but could also help reduce HIV transmission at the population level [15,16]....
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...At the same time, the “Universal Access” agenda has made equity a guiding principle for national programmes, leading to greater prioritisation of key populations, including sex workers [10,11]....
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...[19], or prioritised for treatment as prevention [20])....
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...A modelling study that estimated the impact of the roll-out of annual HIV testing and immediate ART on TB disease incidence in nine African countries reported a 21% (range: 10%–31%) reduction in the cumulative AIDS-related TB disease incidence over the first five years, and a 48% (range: 37%–55%) reduction in the incidence of TB disease at five years [64]....
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...Given the suppressive effect of ART on TB disease incidence [64,65], a decreasing number of active TB patients in need of ART would be expected in the following years....
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