Breakthrough HIV study could change course of treatment for millions - The Washington Post
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The trial, nicknamed START (Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment), began in 2011 and was supposed to run until 2016 but was ended early when an interim review of the data showed a large difference between those who received treatment early and those who received treatment when their CD4+ cell count declined to under 350 cells/mm3.
(...) the risk of developing serious illness or death was reduced by more than half — 53 percent — in the early treatment group. The results were so striking that the researchers felt ethically obligated to offer the antiretroviral drugs to all the patients in the trial, effectively ending their scientific inquiry.
Following the announcement of the results, the United Nations AIDS agency called for everyone with HIV to get immediate access to antiretroviral therapy.
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