Confirmatory viral load reduces HIV treatment switches fourfold in 6-country African study.

The article discusses an observational study by Kim C.E. Sigaloff and colleagues that was published in the "Journal of Acquired Immune Defficiency Syndromes." The study details that confirmatory viral load testing reduced human immunodefficiency virus (HIV) treatment switches fourfold among 250 patients in six African countries. The article also mentions that the study underscored the importance of targeted viral load testing to maximise the clinical benefits of first-line regimens.