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US youth, heterosexual men and African Americans losing out on HIV treatment benefits
Gus Cairns, 2012-08-08 07:10:00
A new study presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference shows that young people, African Americans, and heterosexual men have particularly low rates of retention in care and viral suppression and that there are also inequalities between cities.
A previous study published in November last year had caused concern by revealing that only about half the HIV-positive population of the US was in consistent care and that only 28% had an undetectable viral load.
The US has high rates of HIV testing, but this attrition of treatment, known as the “treatment cascade”, threatens the viability of using widespread antiretroviral therapy as one of the best ways to limit the spread of HIV, as discussed at the IAPAC Controlling the HIV epidemic with antiretrovirals summit in June.
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