The HIV care cascade in Switzerland: reaching the UNAIDS/WHO targets for patients diagnosed with HIV. AIDS
Kohler et al. aimed to describe the HIV care cascade for Switzerland in the year 2012. They estimated that 15’200 individuals (plausible range: 13’400–19’300) infected with HIV were living in Switzerland, corresponding to a prevalence of 0.19%. Of all 15’200 individuals, 81% had been diagnosed, 80% were linked to and 79% were retained in care. Eighty-eight percent of HIV-diagnosed patients were treated with antiretroviral therapy and of those 96% had had suppressed viral load, meeting recent UNAIDS/WHO targets.
Interventions aiming at improving the current situation of HIV care in Switzerland will most likely have the greatest impact if applied to individuals unaware of their HIV infection.