Ending HIV Will Require Optimizing Treatment and Prevention Tools, Say NIH Experts | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Ending HIV Will Require Optimizing Treatment and Prevention Tools, Say NIH Experts | NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Thursday, October 24, 2019

Ending HIV Will Require Optimizing Treatment and Prevention Tools

Unprecedented biomedical research advances over the past four decades have led to development of “toolkits” of highly effective interventions for preventing and treating HIV. Credit: NIAID

Optimal implementation of existing HIV prevention and treatment tools and continued development of new interventions are essential to ending the HIV pandemic, NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., and colleagues write in Clinical Infectious Diseases. They discuss approaches to optimally implement current tools, and review efforts to develop new HIV treatment and prevention strategies and products that can be efficiently taken up by people from diverse communities.