Lancet Commentary Endorses Vancouver Consensus, Calls For Universal HIV Treatment Access

Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: Leaders, advocates, researchers, clinicians call for universal immediate HIV treatment access
Antigone Barton, senior editor and writer of “Science Speaks,” discusses an August 7 commentary published in The Lancet endorsing “the Vancouver Consensus, which emerged at the 2015 International AIDS Society conference last month and called on national leaders, policymakers, donors, and civil society efforts to maximize the potential of treatment for HIV to save lives, protect health, and end the pandemic demonstrated by scientific findings during the last half decade” (8/7).

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