Effective HIV care benefited all HIV patients, regardless of demographics and behavioral risk
Friday, September 28, 2012 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
Improved treatment options, a multi-pronged treatment model, and federal funding have helped an inner city Baltimore clinic improve outcomes for HIV patients across all groups, including those most often hardest hit by the disease. The results from the 15-year analysis of patients at a clinic serving a primarily poor, African-American patient population with high rates of injection drug use demonstrate what state-of-the-art HIV care can achieve, given appropriate support.