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Community viral load as a measure for assessment of HIV treatment as prevention.


ABSTRACT: Community viral load, defined as an aggregation of individual viral loads of people infected with HIV in a specific community, has been proposed as a useful measure to monitor HIV treatment uptake and quantify its effect on transmission. The first reports of community viral load were published in 2009, and the measure was subsequently incorporated into the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Although intuitively an appealing strategy, measurement of community viral load has several theoretical limitations and biases that need further assessment, which can be grouped into four categories: issues of selection and measurement, the importance of HIV prevalence in determining the potential for ongoing HIV transmission, interpretation of community viral load and its effect on ongoing HIV transmission in a community, and the ecological fallacy (ie, ecological bias). These issues need careful assessment as community viral load is being considered as a public health measurement to assess the effect of HIV care on prevention.

SUBMITTER: Miller WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4512165 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Community viral load as a measure for assessment of HIV treatment as prevention.

Miller William C WC   Powers Kimberly A KA   Smith M Kumi MK   Cohen Myron S MS  

The Lancet. Infectious diseases 20130325 5


Community viral load, defined as an aggregation of individual viral loads of people infected with HIV in a specific community, has been proposed as a useful measure to monitor HIV treatment uptake and quantify its effect on transmission. The first reports of community viral load were published in 2009, and the measure was subsequently incorporated into the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Although intuitively an appealing strategy, measurement of community viral load has several theoretical limita  ...[more]

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