A major issue at last year’s British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in Gateshead was loss to care. Several presentations alerted the conference to the fact that there could be more people in the UK who were diagnosed with HIV but were currently not in care, and therefore were not virally suppressed, than there were people who remained undiagnosed.
Loss to care remained as one of the themes at last month’s conference in Birmingham. However, a more detailed analysis of the figures revealed that the idea that as many as a third of people diagnosed with HIV could be out of care was an overestimate, and also found that some people ‘lost to care’ may have in fact been receiving it elsewhere.
Read the full story at Aidsmap.
Source : Aidsmap
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