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Review
. 2021 Jul 16;12(1):4450.
doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24673-w.

Consensus statement on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV

Jeffrey V Lazarus  1 , Kelly Safreed-Harmon  2 , Adeeba Kamarulzaman  3   4 , Jane Anderson  5 , Ricardo Baptista Leite  6 , Georg Behrens  7 , Linda-Gail Bekker  8 , Sanjay Bhagani  9 , Darren Brown  10 , Graham Brown  11 , Susan Buchbinder  12 , Carlos Caceres  13 , Pedro E Cahn  14 , Patrizia Carrieri  15 , Georgina Caswell  16 , Graham S Cooke  17 , Antonella d'Arminio Monforte  18 , Nikos Dedes  19 , Julia Del Amo  20 , Richard Elliott  21 , Wafaa M El-Sadr  22 , María José Fuster-Ruiz de Apodaca  23   24 , Giovanni Guaraldi  25 , Tim Hallett  17 , Richard Harding  26 , Margaret Hellard  27 , Shabbar Jaffar  28 , Meaghan Kall  29 , Marina Klein  30 , Sharon R Lewin  31   32   33 , Ken Mayer  34 , Jose A Pérez-Molina  35 , Doreen Moraa  36 , Denise Naniche  2 , Denis Nash  37 , Teymur Noori  38 , Anton Pozniak  10   39 , Reena Rajasuriar  3 , Peter Reiss  40 , Nesrine Rizk  41 , Jürgen Rockstroh  42 , Diana Romero  37 , Caroline Sabin  43 , David Serwadda  44 , Laura Waters  45
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Review

Consensus statement on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV

Jeffrey V Lazarus et al. Nat Commun. .

Abstract

Health systems have improved their abilities to identify, diagnose, treat and, increasingly, achieve viral suppression among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Despite these advances, a higher burden of multimorbidity and poorer health-related quality of life are reported by many PLHIV in comparison to people without HIV. Stigma and discrimination further exacerbate these poor outcomes. A global multidisciplinary group of HIV experts developed a consensus statement identifying key issues that health systems must address in order to move beyond the HIV field's longtime emphasis on viral suppression to instead deliver integrated, person-centered healthcare for PLHIV throughout their lives.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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