Is a viral load just below 50 copies/ml low enough to ensure the long-term success of HIV therapy?
Home-based counselling and testing identifies people in need of treatment earlier
Rapid ‘combination’ test fails to detect many cases of acute HIV infection
Treatment switches after CD4 count decline reduce risk of death by 75% in Zambia, Malawi
High rate of new diagnoses when gay men phoned and asked to come back for sexual health check-up
3000 UK gay men diagnosed with HIV in 2010 – the highest number ever reported
