As the final symposium of the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) begins, and after hearing about all of the new research predominantly in HIV over the last 4 days, it’s hard not to wonder where it’s all pointing. Fortunately, one of the final symposia sought to provide an answer - ART: The Next 25 Years.
The general themes discussed at the conference would be to say that in general, we are doing quite well with controlling incidence of HIV in MSM in the developed world, the caveat being hot-spots of predominantly Black and Latinx men, or White guys who inject drugs. We’re not doing so well with women in general, particularly in the African setting, and the pregnancy/post-partum complex is perhaps more ominous that we’d initially thought. All of this is constructive, however, and allows us to check the temperature, so to speak, and re-evaluate our approaches to HIV management.
