Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with participation from Ensemble pour un Solidarité Thérapeutique Hospitaliere en Réseau (Esther) and Solidarité Thérapeutique & Initiatives contra le SIDA (Sothis) convened a meeting of experts in HIV treatment to look at antiretroviral (ARV) regimens and strategies to support the further scale up treatment and long-term sustainability in resource limited settings (RLS).
The group considered the challenges of treating earlier, treatment as prevention and how and when to use compounds in pipeline, for children and adults.
The meeting objectives were to:
- Develop a set of recommendations for sequencing existing and pipeline ARV drugs for resource-limited settings in the medium and long term for adults and children.
- Define the specifications of the regimen and formulations will be needed in the future to treat HIV in the community.
- Develop recommendations and principles to guide treatment and diagnostic strategies and an operational research agenda.