Studying drug-resistant HIV in Los Angeles County

Widespread use of anti-HIV drugs in Los Angeles County could reduce new AIDS cases by almost 40%, but would also double the number of cases in which the virus had developed a resistance to drug therapy, according to a USC and Rand Corp. study. The paper, published Monday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, comes in response to growing support for the so-called test-and-treat method of treating HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDS. Such policies call for universal testing and rapid treatment of HIV patients with a combination of antiretroviral drugs.

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