-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade

Linkage, retention, treatment, adherence

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Low-level HIV viremia: Definitions, predictors, mechanisms, and clinical outcomes

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -Organization of care, News, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Questions

What are the factors associated with low-level HIV viremia?
What are its possible mechanisms and clinical outcomes?

Key take-home messages

The definitions of optimal viral suppression, low-level viremia, blips, virologic failure, and recommended management approaches to low-level

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Immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) after HIV diagnosis

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -Organization of care, News, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Questions

What are the best practices (including successes and challenges) of immediate initiation of ART after HIV testing and diagnosis?

Key take-home messages

The benefits of beginning antiretroviral therapy (ART) soon after HIV diagnosis include improved health outcomes

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Impact of universal coverage for antiretroviral therapy (ART) on health outcomes

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -Organization of care, News, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Question

What are the benefits of universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage on individual and population level health outcomes?

Key take-home messages

As of 2017, the annual cost of single-tablet antiretrovirals (ART) in Ontario was estimated to be CAD

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Impact of nonadherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) on population-level health outcomes

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -Organization of care, News, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Questions

What is the impact of nonadherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) on population-level health outcomes?

Key take-home messages

Several studies analyze overall healthcare costs, pharmacy costs, and cost savings among people living with HIV relative to level of

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Interventions for immigrant Latino men who have sex with men along the HIV prevention and treatment cascade

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -HIV prevention, -HIV testing, -Men who have sex with men, Non classifié(e), Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Question

What is the latest evidence regarding interventions for immigrant Latino men who have sex with men along the HIV prevention and treatment cascade?

Key take-home messages

Among reported HIV cases with a known race/ethnicity in Canada in

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HIV self-testing in high-income settings: Acceptability, potential benefits and harms, issues related to linkage to care, interventions to increase HIV self-testing

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -HIV testing, -Organization of care, News, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Questions

What is the current evidence in high-income settings on HIV self-testing related to acceptability, potential benefits and harms, issues related to the linkage to care after a positive test, and interventions to increase HIV self-testing?

Key take-home

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Unmet needs of Indigenous peoples living with HIV

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -Indigenous peoples, -Organization of care, -Social determinants of health, News, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Questions

What are the unmet needs of Indigenous peoples living with HIV?
What interventions, strategies, and programs have been used to address these needs?

Key take-home messages

In 2016, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples accounted for 4.9%

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Strategies to link people with undiagnosed HIV infection to HIV testing, care, and prevention services

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -HIV prevention, -HIV testing, News, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Questions

What strategies have been successful at linking people with undiagnosed HIV infection to HIV testing, care, and prevention services?

Key take-home messages

A variety of strategies have shown promise for identifying individuals with undiagnosed HIV and engaging

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Out-of-pocket costs associated with HIV in publicly funded high-income health care settings

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, -Organization of care, News, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Question

What out-of-pocket costs are associated with aging among people living with HIV?

Key take-home messages

The aging of the people living with HIV in care is leading to increased HIV care costs (1).
There is considerable inter-jurisdictional

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Methods to estimate the number of people living with undiagnosed HIV

-Epidemiology and HIV care cascade, Rapid Responses / By Danielle Giliauskas

Questions

How do we know how many people are living with undiagnosed HIV infection?
What population groups make up people living with undiagnosed HIV infection?

Key take-home messages

At the end of 2016, the Public Health Agency of

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