Moving towards HIV treatment as prevention
Mark A Stoové A C , Alisa E Pedrana A and Margaret E Hellard A B
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A Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia
B Alfred Hospital Infectious Diseases Unit, 55 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Vic. 3004, Australia
C Corresponding author. Tel: +61 3 8506 2301, Fax: +61 3 9282 2138, Email: stoove@burnet.edu.au
Microbiology Australia 35(2) 88-90 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA14026
Published: 16 April 2014
Abstract
HIV prevention has entered a new and exciting era. In lieu of discovering an HIV cure or developing an effective vaccine, ‘combination prevention' is likely to underpin HIV prevention globally over coming decades1. Within the combination prevention framework, the concept of treatment as prevention (TasP) is attracting the most enthusiasm2.
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