Almost 1 in 5 people in Switzerland disconnected from HIV care over 10 years: only half reconnected and with advanced infection
New research from the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) includes clinical outcomes from people living with HIV who disconnected from HIV care for >14 months in this high-income country, often interrupting ART, and often re-engaging with care with advanced HIV.
The paper challenges the approach to HIV surveillance data that censors people who disconnect from care and looked at how to capture silent transfers when people continue to access care but at a different clinic. The analysis used a viral load threshold of 100 copies/mL to categorise whether ART had been interrupted or accessed at a different clinic.
Read the full report by Simon Collins, HIV i-Base here.
Source : HIV i-Base
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