Treatment as Prevention: Should Hepatitis C Learn the Lessons from HIV?
Fernandez-Montero, J.Vicente.; Aspinall, E.J.; Burns, J.E.
Aids Reviews 19(2)
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 1139-6121 PMID: 28534891 Document Number: 693943
Long-term experience in the treatment of HIV-infected individuals has shown indirect benefits of early initiation of antiretroviral therapy, particularly in preventing HIV transmission. With the advent of direct-acting antivirals for the treatment of hepatitis C, the strategy of treatment-as-prevention has become feasible. However, economic, clinical, ethical, and public health issues arise from the concept of using therapeutic interventions only as prevention strategies.