Multi-disease health fairs, 'test and treat' help E. African communities achieve HIV goals

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) People living with HIV in rural East African communities that hosted annual community health campaigns initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) earlier and had higher levels of overall survival and viral suppression than communities receiving standard HIV care, according to study data presented today at a press conference at the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) in Amsterdam. The NIH-supported study is known as Sustainable Ea...