Accelerating the Uptake and Timing of Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Operations Research Agenda

Points• Under 2015 World Health Organization guidelines calling for antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all HIV-infected persons (the "treat all" approach), millions of new patients will be eligible to initiate ART, but existing procedures for treatment initiation are cumbersome and slow, contributing to high loss to follow-up before antiretroviral medications are dispensed.Simpler, more efficient, accelerated algorithms for ART initiation are needed.