National Adoption of “Treat All” Policy Leads More People with HIV to Start Treatment Quickly | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Adoption of “Treat All” Policy Leads More People with HIV to Start Treatment Quickly | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

National Adoption of “Treat All” Policy Leads More People with HIV to Start Treatment Quickly

When countries began providing HIV treatment to all people diagnosed with the virus, regardless of their immune health, the proportion of people who started treatment within a month of enrolling in HIV care jumped sharply in some nations, investigators have found. This NIAID-supported study is among the first to provide evidence outside of a controlled research setting that national adoption of “Treat All” policies leads to strong, sustained improvements in rapid ART initiation after enrollment in HIV care.