{"title":"Editorial: New drugs for HIV: quo vadis?","authors":"Charles W Flexner, Angela Kashuba","doi":"10.1097/COH.0000000000000710","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The WHO estimates that by the beginning of 2021, 27.5 million adults and children were receiving antiretroviral treatment [1]. Many of these individuals are taking a coformulated generic combination of dolutegravir with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and lamivudine (TLD), a daily oral combination that could be thought of as the ‘universal antiretroviral regimen [2]’. In the face of numbers like this, one could easily wonder if there is even a need for new treatments for HIV. Although it has been more than 3 years since this journal reviewed the topic of ‘New Drugs for HIV’, the Table of","PeriodicalId":10949,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/COH.0000000000000710","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"IMMUNOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The WHO estimates that by the beginning of 2021, 27.5 million adults and children were receiving antiretroviral treatment [1]. Many of these individuals are taking a coformulated generic combination of dolutegravir with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and lamivudine (TLD), a daily oral combination that could be thought of as the ‘universal antiretroviral regimen [2]’. In the face of numbers like this, one could easily wonder if there is even a need for new treatments for HIV. Although it has been more than 3 years since this journal reviewed the topic of ‘New Drugs for HIV’, the Table of
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Published bimonthly and offering a unique and wide ranging perspective on the key developments in the field, each issue of Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS features hand-picked review articles from our team of expert editors. With six disciplines published across the year – including HIV and ageing, a HIV vaccine, and epidemiology – every issue also contains annotated reference detailing the merits of the most important papers.