Mathematical models of treatment as prevention

While the effect of reducing viral load on individuals’ risk of transmitting or acquiring HIV was being debated, a number of mathematical models were published which looked at the consequences, on a population level, of suppressing HIV viral load in the highest possible proportion of the HIV-positive population.

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