APRIL 9, 2019

Updates in the DHHS Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapy

By Jonathan Z. Li, MD, and Paul E. Sax, MD

In the last quarter of 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) updated the guidelines for the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in adults and adolescents living with HIV. In this review, we summarize some of the most important changes and update recent key studies that are relevant to clinical practice.

Treatment Initiation

Longitudinal studies of the recent treatment era have reported unprecedented levels of virologic suppression