%0 Journal Article
%T The Effect of Monitoring Viral Load and Tracing Patients Lost to Follow-up on the Course of the HIV Epidemic in Malawi: A Mathematical Model
%A Cliff C Kerr
%A David P Wilson
%A Janne Estill
%A Luisa Salazar-Vizcaya
%A Lyson Tenthani
%A Nello Blaser
%A Olivia Keiser
%J Archive of "Open Forum Infectious Diseases".
%D 2018
%R 10.1093/ofid/ofy092
%X Antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces HIV transmission, but treated patients may again become infectious. We used a mathematical model to determine whether ART as prevention is more effective if viral load (VL) is routinely monitored and patients lost to follow-up (LTFU) traced
%K antiretroviral therapy
%K HIV
%K loss to follow-up
%K mathematical model
%K monitoring
%K transmission
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6007424/