HSCI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Treatment As Prevention, Herd Immunity, Viral Load
10 Apr 2018
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21: trying to normalize hiv testing, other areas number can be higher. 52: early treatment = early inflammation will be prevented or minimized, actually, people who are older that don"t think they are at risk tend to appear for their tests later on. Rate of hiv in bc as of 2012 is 5. 6/ 100,000 individuals: dropped our rate drastically through treatment as prevention. Which province in canada has the highest rate of all-age hiv diagnoses, as of 2013 is. Saskatchewan: around 11. 9 per 100 000 individuals. Incidence rate on reserves jumps to 63. 9 / 100 000. True: community viral load- defined as an indicator of a community"s level of infectiousness and transmission probability is a better predictor of hiv transmission than individual risk behaviour: herd immunity.
