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Tentative evidence of treatment-as-prevention efficacy in northern France
Gus Cairns, 2012-09-04 08:20:00
Physicians at seven HIV clinics in north-eastern France have provided evidence of an association between a decrease in the so-called 'community viral load' (CVL) in diagnosed patients between 2005 and 2010 and the number of new diagnoses of HIV.
However, the association is weaker than expected, and the study has been taken into account by the country’s health ministry as part of the evidence suggesting the necessity of expanding HIV screening.
The decline in CVL, and the correlation between it and a decline in new diagnoses in any one year, were both statistically significant. The decline in the number of new diagnoses over the five years, on the other hand, was not statistically significant in itself. The researchers comment that the effect observed is unlikely to be due to chance, but that more people with HIV would need to be diagnosed and put on treatment to make a large difference to infections.
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