The researchers also showed that early implementation of HIV testing and treatment improvements could have further reduced the size of the outbreak. Optimising HIV testing and treatment before the outbreak was suspected could have prevented it altogether.
The study was carried out in collaboration with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (GGC) and Public Health Scotland after an outbreak of HIV was identified among PWID GGC region of Scotland in 2015.
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Paper: ‘Testing and treatment interventions in community settings key to controlling a recent human immunodeficiency virus outbreak among people who inject drugs in Glasgow: a modeling study’ by Lara I Allen, Hannah Fraser, Jack Stone, Peter Vickerman, Matthew Hickman et al. in The Journal of Infectious Diseases [open access]