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Podcast: Decera Clinical Education Infectious Disease Podcast
Episode: Starting ART: Dialogues on Optimizing Engagement in HIV Care
Description: In this podcast episode, Isolde Butler, MD, MPH, a healthcare professional caring for people living with HIV, and Marissa Gonzalez, an individual living with HIV, discuss strategies to improve healthcare professionals’ competencies in delivering optimal HIV care from the start to better support patients in overcoming barriers to sustained care engagement.The topics they discuss include: An introduction to the guidelines on ART initiation—start quickly and choose the therapy that is effective and tolerableThe patient experience, from initial diagnosis to treatment selection, noting that where people get diagnosed matters in determining the level of support they...