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SUBMITTER: Miller WC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4512165 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]