eHIV Review

Central to ending the HIV epidemic is decreasing HIV transmission, and critical to decreasing transmission is more effective screening of the segments of the population who experience most new infections. These include men who have sex with men and transgender women, who taken together account for nearly two of three new HIV infections in the United States.  

How can this situation be remedied? Most transmission has been shown to come from people unaware of their infection. What can be done to bring the rate of HIV screening in these populations closer to guideline recommendations? Is at-home HIV self-testing effective at decreasing transmission? How should efforts to increase HIV testing for transgender women be targeted? What does the evidence say? 

These are some of the questions Dr. Robert Goldstein from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital addresses in this issue of eHIV Review.