Optimal Treatment Strategies in the Context of 'Treatment for Prevention' against HIV-1 in Resource-Poor Settings.

An estimated 2.7 million new HIV-1 infections occurred in 2010. `Treatment-for-prevention' may strongly prevent HIV-1 transmission. The basic idea is that immediate treatment initiation rapidly decreases virus burden, which reduces the number of transmittable viruses and thereby the probability...

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Main Authors: Sulav Duwal, Stefanie Winkelmann, Christof Schütte, Max von Kleist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4423987?pdf=render