CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Overcoming Reluctance to Change as a Barrier to Optimizing ART for People Living With HIV and Viral Suppression

Episode Summary

Don’t settle! Listen in as Dr Monica Gandhi and Dr Luis Buzon Martin discuss how a proactive approach to ART switch can improve treatment satisfaction and quality of life for people living with virologically suppressed HIV.

Episode Notes

Don’t settle! Listen in to learn how a proactive approach to ART switch can improve treatment satisfaction and quality of life for people living with virologically suppressed HIV. Topics covered include:

• International AIDS Society (IAS) USA and European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) Guidance on Switching ART With Viral Suppression
• Considerations for switching to a 2-drug regimen or long-acting ART
• Methods for assessing patient satisfaction with their current ART regimen

Presenters:

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
Director, UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine
Medical Director, “Ward 86” HIV Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
San Francisco, California

Luis Buzon Martin, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases
Hospital Universitario de Burgos
Burgos, Espana

Link to full program and accompanying slides: 
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