ArticleThe Lancet. Infectious diseases2013
Community viral load as a measure for assessment of HIV treatment as prevention.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Geosocial-networking App Use Among Men who Have Sex with Men in High HIV Community Viral Load Areas of Baltimore City.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Age and gender profiles of HIV infection burden and viraemia: novel metrics for HIV epidemic control in African populations with high antiretroviral therapy coverage.International journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Comparison of dried blood spot (DBS) and plasma HIV-1 viral load measurements using Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan assay, Northwest Ethiopia.Virology journal · 2025Article
- Association between population viral load surrogate indicator and HIV transmission potential: a prospective cohort study in Xinjiang, China.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Commentary on Quigley et al.Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2024Article
- Inferring Population HIV Viral Load From a Single HIV Clinic's Electronic Health Record: Simulation Study With a Real-World Example.Online journal of public health informatics · 2024Article
- Evaluation of the performance of a qPCR-based assay for HIV-1 viral load determination.PloS one · 2024Article
- Conceptualizing the Mechanisms of Social Determinants of Health: A Heuristic Framework to Inform Future Directions for Mitigation.The Milbank quarterly · 2023Review
- Sexual health discussion practices and HIV clinical care provided by primary care providers in the Southeast United States, K-BAP Study (2017-2018).Family practice · 2023Article
- The epidemiology of HIV population viral load in twelve sub-Saharan African countries.PloS one · 2023Article
- Regional disparity of HIV incidence and prevalence among men who have sex with men.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Temporal change in population-level prevalence of detectable HIV viraemia and its association with HIV incidence in key populations in India: a serial cross-sectional study.The lancet. HIV · 2021Article
- Population Viral Load, Viremia, and Recent HIV-1 Infections: Findings From Population-Based HIV Impact Assessments (PHIAs) in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Zambia.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Community viral load, defined as an aggregation of individual viral loads of people infected with HIV in a specific community, has been proposed as a useful measure to monitor HIV treatment uptake and quantify its effect on transmission. The first reports of community viral load were published in 2009, and the measure was subsequently incorporated into the US National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Although intuitively an appealing strategy, measurement of community viral load has several theoretical limitations and biases that need further assessment, which can be grouped into four categories: issues of selection and measurement, the importance of HIV prevalence in determining the potential for ongoing HIV transmission, interpretation of community viral load and its effect on ongoing HIV transmission in a community, and the ecological fallacy (ie, ecological bias). These issues need careful assessment as community viral load is being considered as a public health measurement to assess the effect of HIV care on prevention.
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