Treatment as Prevention: new challenges regarding HIV testing in Southern Africa and Western Africa - Larmarange, Joseph
Treatment as prevention (TasP) strategy or more precisely universal repeat HIV testing and early treatment initiation (UTT) could reduce significantly the number of new HIV infections in general population. Several on-going trials are currently testing the feasibility and the efficacy of this approach in Southern Africa. The UTT strategy changes the whole paradigm of HIV prevention and care and has potentially great social consequences that need to be explored. We will explore some of emerging issues in social science raised by these trials. Moreover, epidemiological contexts are different between Southern Africa and Western Africa: UTT strategies cannot be implemented in the same way. Which questions should be specifically addressed to implement UTT strategy in Western Africa?
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