Cohort Profile: Caribbean, Central and South America Network for HIV research (CCASAnet) collaboration within the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) programme.

摘要

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has evolved in its third decade to be an unprecedented human catastrophe of global scale and importance. Although an historic response for change and intervention has led to decreased rates of new infections and HIV-associated mortality in many communities, the enormity of the pandemic continues to overwhelm already constrained resources everywhere. Improved understanding of antiretroviral therapy (ART) responses and viral and host characteristics, both within and between diverse settings and populations, is needed to guide initiatives in HIV prevention and treatment worldwide.