TOPLINE:

At a clinic in Miami, patients with newly diagnosed HIV infection who had fast-track referrals to start antiretroviral therapy demonstrated superior outcomes in terms of viral suppression and CD4 count recovery compared with those receiving standard care.

METHODOLOGY:

Test and Treat/Rapid Access is an HIV care pathway that fast-tracks newly diagnosed patients to medical visits and antiretroviral therapy initiation — often on the same day as diagnosis, rather than waiting weeks under the traditional standard-of-care process — which involves case manager evaluation followed by initial appointment.

Researchers compared the characteristics of 95 patients with HIV infection entering HIV care through the traditional standard-of-care pathway (n = 64; average age, 45.4 years) vs the r

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