Community-based early HIV testing and treatment to manage and prevent emerging HIV among people who inject drugs

Community-based testing and treatment response to Glasgow’s HIV outbreak among people who inject drugs (PWID) successfully brought the 2015 outbreak under control, modeling led by academics at the University of Bristol suggests. The study’s findings, published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), indicate that approximately three times as many people would have been infected by 2020 if these interventions had not been implemented. The researchers also showed that early implementation of HIV testing and treatment improvements could have further reduced the size of the outbreak. Optimizing HIV testing and Read More

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