Africa: Large cohorts show excellent responses to ART

The positive impacts of antiretroviral programmes in several African countries and other resource-poor areas were highlighted in a series of oral presentations to the Fifteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston on Wednesday. These studies, which represent some of the first longer-term data on treatment response in low-income countries, pointed toward successes in patient retention, immune recovery, and reductions in mortality