HIV Medicines Technology and Market Landscape (1st Edition)

Access to appropriate antiretroviral therapy (ART) is vital to prevent HIV morbidity and mortality, and high ART coverage also promotes HIV prevention by lowering the amount of virus circulating in people within a particular setting or population. The World Health Organization (WHO) released new treatment recommendations in June 2013 that raise the CD4 cell count threshold for ART initiation for most people (from 350 to 500 cells/mL) and expand the number of populations that should receive treatment irrespective of their immune status.