Treatment as prevention

Treatment as prevention is a concept in public health that the transmission of an infection can be prevented by treating people with the infection so that they become less likely to transmit the infection to others. The term is used mostly to talk about treating people living with HIV/AIDS to lower risk of HIV infection in a community.

After the HPTN 052 clinical trial gave supporting evidence that treatment as prevention could be a useful strategy for preventing the spread of HIV, many regions began incorporating a treatment as prevention plan in their public health policy for responding to HIV.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Hammer, Scott M. (2011). "Antiretroviral Treatment as Prevention". New England Journal of Medicine 365 (6): 561–562. doi:10.1056/NEJMe1107487. ISSN 0028-4793.
  2. ↑ Cohen, Jon (23 December 2011). "HIV Treatment as Prevention". Science 334 (6063): 1628. doi:10.1126/science.334.6063.1628. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22194547. Retrieved 2015-04-04.
  3. ↑ The Lancet (May 2011). "HIV treatment as prevention—it works". The Lancet 377 (9779): 1719. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60713-7.
  4. ↑ Cohen, Myron S.; McCauley, Marybeth; Gamble, Theresa R. (2012). "HIV treatment as prevention and HPTN 052". Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS 7 (2): 99–105. doi:10.1097/COH.0b013e32834f5cf2. ISSN 1746-630X.
  5. ↑ Bärnighausen, Till; Eyal, Nir; Wikler, Daniel (2014). "HIV Treatment-as-Prevention Research at a Crossroads". PLoS Medicine 11 (6): e1001654. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001654. ISSN 1549-1676.
  6. ↑ Knox, Richard (12 July 2012). "'Treatment As Prevention' Rises As Cry In HIV Fight". npr.org. Retrieved 4 April 2015.