News

Featured news from NHIVNA

HIV-related news from NAM

Home-testing acceptable in 'treat everyone' trial: treatment takes longer to accept
Gus Cairns, 2014-07-23 16:00:00

The pilot phase of a trial in South Africa that aims to treat everyone living with HIV in a community and compare the effect of this with standard treatment has found that the trial intervention is acceptable to communities. The results were presented to the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) in Melbourne.

However, the proportion of people who attended clinics and started treatment was somewhat lower than researchers had expected. This may indicate that people diagnosed with HIV may need more support in order to start treatment, and some audience members suggested that couples or family pre-test counselling might help.

Source:1