Seek-Test-Treat-Retain To Stop the Spread of HIV
With the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for HIV in the mid-1990s, the AIDS epidemic entered a less deadly era. Although HAART does not cure HIV infection, it reduces symptoms and complications, delays progression to AIDS, and lengthens life expectancy. As a result, many patients are able to manage their disease as a chronic illness over decades. HAART also dramatically decreases transmission of HIV from mother to child and curtails the spread of the virus among adults. Unfortunately, despite the advances in treatment and prevention, roughly 50,000 new HIV