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- The HIV care continuum is useful both as an individual-level tool to assess care outcomes, as well as a population-level framework to analyze the proportion of people with HIV in a given community who are engaged in each successive step.
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Oct 28, 2022 · What Is the HIV Care Continuum? The HIV care continuum is a public health model that outlines the steps or stages that people with HIV go through from diagnosis to achieving and maintaining viral suppression (a very low or undetectable amount of HIV in the blood) through care and treatment with HIV medicine called antiretroviral therapy or ART.
The continuum is the series of steps from the time a person receives a diagnosis of HIV through the successful treatment of their infection with HIV medications.
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Nov 8, 2016 · The HIV care continuum is a framework that models the dynamic stages of HIV care. The continuum consists of five main steps, which, at the population level, are depicted cross-sectionally as the HIV treatment cascade. These steps include diagnosis, linkage to care (LTC), retention in care (RiC), adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART), and ...
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The value of the continuum in managing the HIV epidemic is compelling: individuals engaged in care can manage HIV as a chronic condition and simultaneously reduce the risk of transmitting the virus to others.
Understanding the HIV care continuum The HIV care continuum is a method of examining the sequential stages of medical care that people with HIV should go through between diagnosis and achieving sustained viral suppression.1 The care continuum, which was made popular by Gardener and colleagues,2 is an important public health tool that can provide
Nov 13, 2020 · AHEAD: Tracking Linkage to HIV Medical Care Data to End the HIV Epidemic. 11-13-2020 HIV treatment improves the health, quality of life, and life expectancy of people with HIV. Research has shown that people with HIV who take antiretrovir...
Nov 21, 2013 · Since this is such an important framework that will influence HIV programs, policies, and services in the coming years, we asked Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy, to provide an overview of the continuum in this brief video:
