Earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy should be highest priority for expansion of HIV care
Monday, January 3, 2011 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
Earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy should be the highest priority for global expansion of HIV patient care. This finding, from a paper published in this week's PLoS Medicine, should help resource-limited nations to phase in the implementation of the new 2010 WHO recommendations for HIV treatment. 'Immediate scale-up of the entire WHO guideline package may be prohibitively expensive in some settings,' said lead author Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. 'In many resource-limited settings, the relevant policy question is: What to do first?'...