Decreased HIV Transmission after a Policy of Providing Free Access to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Taiwan
| Autor: | Shiing-Jer Twu, Jung-Der Wang, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Mao-Yen Chen, Chuang Cy, Hsu-Mei Hsu, Chi-Tai Fang, Yu-Yin Chang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male Population Gonorrhea Taiwan HIV Infections Health Services Accessibility law.invention law Antiretroviral Therapy Highly Active medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Syphilis education Health policy education.field_of_study Models Statistical biology business.industry Health Policy Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) virus diseases biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Virology Confidence interval Infectious Diseases Transmission (mechanics) Population Surveillance Lentivirus Female business Program Evaluation Demography |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 190:879-885 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6613 0022-1899 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/422601 |
| Popis: | Taiwan established a nationwide surveillance system for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in 1989 and adopted a policy to provide all HIV-infected citizens with free access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) beginning in April 1997. This provided an opportunity to determine the effect of the widespread use of HAART on the evolution of the HIV epidemic. We analyzed national HIV surveillance data. The HIV transmission rate was estimated by use of an exponential model of HIV epidemic evolution with statistical projection over the interval between infection and detection to fit the surveillance data. By the end of 2002 the cumulative number of HIV-infected citizens in Taiwan had reached 4390 (0.019% of the total population). After free access to HAART was established the estimated HIV transmission rate decreased by 53% (0.391 vs. 0.184 new cases/prevalent case-year [95% confidence interval 31%–65%]). There was no statistically significant change in the incidence of syphilis in the general population or among HIV-positive patients during the same period. Providing free HAART to all HIV-infected citizens was associated with a 53% decrease in the HIV transmission rate and contributed to the control of the HIV epidemic in Taiwan. (authors) |
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