Top 10 HIV prevention stories from CROI 2020

published on April 2, 2020 by Roger Pebody, in aidsmap

One of the most important HIV conferences of the year, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2020) took place in the second week of March, just as many people’s attention was engulfed by the new coronavirus.

You might have missed some of the key developments in HIV prevention presented at the meeting:

The extra price the US health system may pay for the new, branded version of PrEP (Descovy) rather than the older version (Truvada or its cheaper generic equivalents) is not remotely justifiable in terms of its marginally more benign side effect profile, according to a cost-effectiveness analysis.

Community-level viral suppression was strongly associated with a large drop in the number of new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men in Australia between 2012 and 2017. The study shows the impact of ‘treatment as prevention’ even before PrEP became available in Australia.

However, an analysis of four massive randomised studies of ‘test and treat’ strategies in sub-Saharan Africa showed that their impact on new HIV infections was more modest. “90-90-90 does not result in HIV elimination and universal test and treat will not control generalised HIV epidemics on their own,” said Dr Kevin de Cock.

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Our work serves clients and communities across British Columbia on lands and waters cared for and nurtured by the many distinct First Nations across the province. The BC-CfE humbly and gratefully acknowledge the stewards of these lands, particularly the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh) on whose unceded, traditional and ancestral territories our offices are located.