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Viral suppression is the cornerstone of success in long-term HIV treatment. The World Health Organization commissioned us to systematically review the scientific literature on HIV treatment outcomes. We focused on the viral loads of adults on first-line antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 in low- and middle-income...

With the progressive scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Africa, pre-treatment drug resistance is increasing. People who have never been on treatment are found to harbour drug resistant HIV even before they start first-line antiretroviral therapy. In the PanAfrican Studies to Evaluate Resistance (PASER) cohort, a...

Antiretroviral drugs are proven to prevent people from acquiring HIV. The effectiveness of this pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in clinical trials now is being put to the test in real world settings, with excellent results presented at the recent AIDS 2015 conference in Vancouver. This paper...

Joep Lange’s legacy to be carried forward in Joep Lange Institute and Joep Lange Chair   Amsterdam, 15 July 2015 – Today, almost a year after the MH17 disaster, the foundation of the Joep Lange Institute and the Joep Lange Chair and Fellows program was announced. The...