Highlights of the 2017 European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) Guidelines for the treatment of adult HIV-positive persons version 9.0.
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) Guidelines have since 2005 provided multidisciplinary recommendations for the care of HIV-positive persons in geographically diverse areas. GUIDELINE HIGHLIGHTS: Major revisions have been made in all sections of the 2017 Guidelines: antiretroviral treatment (ART), comorbidities, coinfections and opportunistic diseases. Newly added are also a summary of the main changes made, and direct video links to the EACS online course on HIV Management. Recommendations on the clinical situations in which tenofovir alafenamide may be considered over tenofovir disoproxil fumarate are provided, and recommendations on which antiretrovirals can be used safely during pregnancy have been revised. Renal and bone toxicity and hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment have been added as potential reasons for ART switches in fully virologically suppressed individuals, and dolutegravir/rilpivirine has been included as a treatment option. In contrast, dolutegravir monotherapy is not recommended. New recommendations on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, chronic lung disease, solid organ transplantation, and prescribing in elderly are included, and human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination recommendations have been expanded. All drug-drug interaction tables have been updated and new tables are included. Treatment options for direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have been updated and include the latest combinations of sofosbuvir/velpatasvir/voxilaprevir and glecaprevir/pibrentasvir. Recommendations on management of DAA failure and acute HCV infection have been expanded. For treatment of tuberculosis (TB), it is underlined that intermittent treatment is contraindicated, and for resistant TB new data suggest that using a three-drug combination may be as effective as a five-drug regimen, and may reduce treatment duration from 18-24 to 6-10 months. CONCLUSIONS: Version 9.0 of the EACS Guidelines provides a holistic approach to HIV care and is translated into the six most commonly spoken languages.
Date Issued
2018-05
Date Acceptance
2018-01-08
Citation
HIV Medicine, 2018, 19 (5), pp.309-315
ISSN
1464-2662
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
309
End Page
315
Journal / Book Title
HIV Medicine
Volume
19
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Authors. HIV Medicine Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British HIV Association
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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29493093
Subjects
ART
European AIDS Clinical Society guidelines
HBV
HCV
HIV
antiretroviral treatment
coinfections
comorbidities
opportunistic diseases
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
Adult
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
Coinfection
Drug Interactions
Europe
Female
HIV Infections
Humans
Male
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
Societies, Scientific
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2018-03-01