Treatment for HIV prevention study in southwestern areas of China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

China has ambitious to achieve significant reductions in HIV transmission and HIV-related mortality by adopting the World Health Organization's "Treat All" approach. Such a prevention strategy is needed future study on regional scale.

Methods

An observational cohort study of HIV epidemiology and treatment databases was used to study the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy on the transmission of HIV in serodiscordant couples in Guangxi of China.

Results

A total of 7713 couples were entered into the cohort study analysis which included 1885 couples in the treatment-naive cohort and 5828 couples in the treated cohort. During the follow-up of 18985.29 person-years from 2003 to 2014, the average incidence of HIV was 2.4 per 100 person-years (95% CI 2.1-2.6).

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6326233 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature