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Evidence is not yet sufficient to recommend universal treatment, clinicians and community writers say
Gus Cairns, 2013-08-05 09:30:00

We do not yet have sufficiently strong evidence to recommend that antiretroviral treatment (ART) should be offered to all patients regardless of their CD4 count, a group of writers in AIDS Journal has concluded.

The writers criticise the current inconsistency on when to start ART in guidelines that have global influence. They suggest that if all guidelines used a rigorous standard for rating evidence, their recommendations would be more consistent, and probably more cautious about when to initiate treatment.

The writers are researchers Caroline Sabin of University College London, David Cooper of the University of new South Wales in Sydney and Mauro Schechter from the University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, plus Simon Collins of the UK treatment information organisation HIV i-Base.

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