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Ending the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic: Towards an Evidence-Based Approach

ARTICLE: Ending the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic: Towards an Evidence-Based Approach

AUTHORS: Anthony Fojo and David Dowdy

JOURNAL: Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Nov 27;69(12):2199-2200. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz1018.

Abstract

The newly announced Ending the HIV Epidemic (EtHE) initiative aims to reduce the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence in the United States by 90% within 10 years. The initiative focuses on 50 high-burden counties and 7 Southern states with high rural HIV incidences, and it includes 4 pillars: (1) early diagnosis; (2) the treatment of HIV to achieve viral suppression; (3) the prevention of HIV infection in high-risk subgroups; and (4) the rapid detection of and response to transmission hotspots [1].

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