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HIV 'test and treat' strategy can save lives -- but it needs to be easier for patients to start treatment

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to take a tremendous toll on human health, with 37 million people infected and 1.2 million deaths worldwide in 2014. In sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV epidemic has been most devastating, more than 25 million people are HIV-infected, about 70 percent of the global total.

But as of 2014, only about 1...

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