Abstract #390  -  Beyond virology: are we enhancing quality of life and the patient experience of HIV disease?
Authors:   Presenting Author:   Dr Richard Harding - Kings College
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Aim: The clinical management of people living with HIV has swung from palliation and end of life care into a focus on sophisticated treatment decision making, adherence, and monitoring of immune and virological responses. New data are emerging that suggest a need for a retrieval of these prior skills. Alongside the incredible successes of treatment, a picture is emerging of growing mortality related to malignancies, cerebrovascular events and organ failure. Studies of quality of life and symptomatology are revealing a high burden of morbidity across physical, psychological, social and spiritual domains. As people with HIV are offered further lines of possible treatment, a longer life expectancy and an assumption of “living well”, attention must be paid to the assessment and management of multidimensional aspects of patient experience of disease, with a focus on quality of life. This plenary will review the evidence from the UK, Latin America and Africa and appraise the state of science in this field of research.
Method / Issue: Plenary supported by The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
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