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- Title
The science of Durban, AIDS 2016.
- Authors
Beyrer, Chris; Shisana, Olive; Baral, Stefan D.; Milsana, Koleka; Mayer, Kenneth H.; Pozniak, Anton; Walker, Bruce D.; Mboup, Souleman; Sohn, Annette H.; Serwadda, David; Rees, Helen; Dvoriak, Sergii; Warren, Mitchell; Thiam, Safiatou; El-Sadr, Wafaa M.; Hospital, Xavier; Ryan, Owen; Thomson, Nicolas; Bekker, Linda-Gail
- Abstract
Introduction: The science presented at the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, in July 2016, addressed the state of the field across basic, clinical, prevention, law and policy and implementation science. Methods and Results: The AIDS response has seen remarkable achievements in scientific advances, in translation of those advances into prevention, treatment and care for affected individuals and communities, and in large scale implementation - reaching 18 million people with antiviral therapy by mid-year 2016. Yet incident HIV infections in adults remain stubbornly stable and are increasing in some regions and among adolescents and adults in some key populations, challenging current science, policy and programming. There have been important advances in both preventive vaccines and in cure research, but both areas require ongoing investment and innovation. Clinical research has flourished with new agents, regimens, delivery modes and diagnostics but has been challenged by aging and increasingly complex patient populations, long-term adherence challenges, co-infections and co-morbidities, and unresolved issues in TB management and epidemic control. It is an extraordinary period of innovation in prevention, yet the promise of new tools and combination approaches have yet to deliver epidemic HIV control.
- Subjects
DURBAN (South Africa); HIV infections; THERAPEUTICS; AIDS conferences; ANTIVIRAL agents; DIAGNOSIS of HIV infections
- Publication
Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2017, Vol 20, p1
- ISSN
1758-2652
- Publication type
Proceeding
- DOI
10.7448/IAS.20.1.21781