Highlighting the need for investment and innovation in ART retention interventions.
Highlighting the need for investment and innovation in ART retention interventions.
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强调 ART 保留干预措施的投资和创新的必要性。
DOI:
10.1016/s2214-109x(22)00327-8
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2022
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Humphrey,Lia
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Nosyk,Bohdan;Humphrey,Lia
In The Lancet Global Health, Anna Bershteyn and colleagues1 highlight an issue of growing prominence in the global HIV/AIDS response. In their combined analysis, the authors used data from three HIV models set in South Africa, Malawi, and sub-Saharan Africa to estimate how improvement in retention on antiretroviral therapy (ART) could affect transmission, health, and upper-bound costs of interventions. Individuals disengaged from ART contribute to an increasing proportion of HIV-associated deaths and transmissions. This is most evident in settings with the most advanced epidemic responses—eg, we found that transmission attributable to individuals who discontinued ART across the USA was greatest in New York (NY, USA), 2 despite the city being a leader in HIV control in urban settings. Continued improvements in access to treatment and prevention interventions will only amplify the need to improve strategies in sustaining ART retention in the years to come. Challenges in ART persistence are unfortunately pervasive, even in settings with low financial barriers, 3 and poor persistence is typically tied to social and structural conditions that drive incidence in populations at greatest risk. 4 These factors further exacerbate inequities and might stifle the population-level benefits of ART. 5 Unfortunately, interventions to address these challenges have had only moderate effectiveness, 3 relatively high cost, and, subsequently, reduced marginal value.