Intermittent HIV treatment schedules – such as weekends off treatment – may not be inferior to continuous treatment in adults with well-controlled HIV, but they are not suitable for adolescents with HIV in Africa who receive one or two viral load tests each year, studies presented this week at the 13th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2025), in Kigali show.
Intermittent treatment for people with suppressed viral load has been proposed as a way of mitigating the impact of severe funding cuts on antiretroviral drug supplies. A UNAIDS survey of 56 countries affected by US funding cuts found that almost half (46%) had experienced supply chain disruption and 14% had less than six months stock of at least one antiretroviral drug.
Read the full news story at aidsmap.
All aidsmap reports from IAS 2025 can be accessed here.
Source : aidsmap
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