Posted on October 26, 2015
Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/jhm-hcc102615.php
"A computer model developed by Johns Hopkins health care delivery specialists predicts that strengthening a handful of efforts to keep people with HIV in lifetime care, along with more rigorous testing, would potentially avert a projected 752,000 new HIV infections and 276,000 AIDS deaths in the United States alone over the next 20 years.
In a report on their HIV epidemic-economic model, published online in October by the journalClinical Infectious Diseases, the researchers say that efforts to encourage people with HIV to follow up regularly with their provider and maintain long-term drug therapy may be more fruitful in preventing HIV transmission than efforts to increase HIV testing alone. Encouraging patient engagement with care is known as retention in care. Combining increased retention among those diagnosed with increased HIV screening and rapid enrollment into care among high-risk groups would have even greater impact."
