A Care Continuum of Immediate ART for Newly Diagnosed Patients and Patients Presenting Later to Care at a Federally Qualified Health Center in New Orleans

Jason Halperin; Katherine Conner; Isolde Butler; Pu Zeng; Leann Myers; Rebecca Clark; Nicholas Van Sickels

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz161

A Care Continuum of Immediate ART for Newly Diagnosed Patients and Patients Presenting Later to Care at a Federally Qualified Health Center in New Orleans

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Mar 26;6(4):ofz161. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz161. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Jason Halperin^{1

2}, Katherine Conner¹, Isolde Butler¹, Pu Zeng¹, Leann Myers³, Rebecca Clark¹, Nicholas Van Sickels^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ CrescentCare, New Orleans, Louisiana.
² Infectious Diseases Section, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana.
³ Global Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Abstract

Rapid-start, immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation is a novel intervention that leads to earlier viral suppression. Longer-term data is essential before supporting this strategy more widely. CrescentCare, a federally qualified health center in New Orleans, followed 195 patients who received same-day ART; here we present a continuum of care for immediate ART intervention.

Keywords: HIV; care continuum; immediate ART; rapid ART.

Grants and funding

U54 GM104940/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States