Oh, and Happy January 2012 from this humble blog.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Treatment as prevention; or, the best defense is a good offense
The journal Science has selected this paper as their “breakthrough of the year”. As you know, the HIV Prevention Trials Network study 052 demonstrated that early antiretroviral therapy reduced heterosexual HIV transmission by 96%. The concept is intuitively obvious, but often we compartmentalize “prevention” and “treatment” without recognizing how crucial prompt and effective therapy can be to preventing pathogen transmission (and/or to preventing emergence of antimicrobial resistance). I suspect we can and will put together some excellent sessions on “treatment as prevention” at the inaugural ID Week in 2012.
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