%0 Thesis %A MEDLAND, NICHOLAS ANDREW %D 2018 %T Studies in the epidemiology of HIV infection and its treatment in the era of universal treatment recommendations and treatment as prevention. %U https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Studies_in_the_epidemiology_of_HIV_infection_and_its_treatment_in_the_era_of_universal_treatment_recommendations_and_treatment_as_prevention_/6244901 %R 10.4225/03/5af41306f246e %K HIV %K sexually tranmitted infections %K prevention %K antiretroviral %K antiretroviral therapy %K diagnosis %K viral supression %K HIV treatment %K HIV prevention %K Treatment as prevention %K renal %K Fanconi %K Tenofovir %K HIV incidence %K incidence %K men who have sex with men %K Clinical Sciences not elsewhere classified %K Epidemiology %X This thesis consists of six individual studies which were conducted at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre (MSHC) in the three and one half years following that announcement and represent a body of work addressing: how the HIV care cascade is used to track treatment coverage; the delay between HIV diagnosis and treatment initiation; the delay between HIV infection and viral suppression; morbidity amongst people living with HIV in the universal treatment era; and recent changes in HIV incidence. %I Monash University