Everything counts - a method to determine viral suppression among people living with HIV using longitudinal data for the HIV care continuum - results of two large, German, multi-center real-life cohort studies over 20 years (1999-2018)

• Main Authors: Daniel Schmidt (Author), Christian Kollan (Author), Matthias Stoll (Author), Osamah Hamouda (Author), Viviane Bremer (Author), Tobias Kurth (Author), Barbara Bartmeyer (Author), the HIV-1 Seroconverter cohort (Author), the ClinSurv HIV cohort (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background The aim of this study was to develop a standardized method to reconstruct persons' individual viral load (VL) courses to determine viral suppression and duration of viremia for the HIV care continuum in Germany using longitudinal cohort data. Methods We analyzed data from tw...