title: Beyond viral suppression of HIV - the new quality of life frontier.
abstract: In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted a new Global Health Sector Strategy on HIV for 2016-2021. It establishes 15 ambitious targets, including the '90-90-90' target calling on health systems to reduce under-diagnosis of HIV, treat a greater number of those diagnosed, and ensure that those being treated achieve viral suppression.
  
  
  
  The WHO strategy calls for person-centered chronic care for people living with HIV (PLHIV), implicitly acknowledging that viral suppression is not the ultimate goal of treatment. However, it stops short of providing an explicit target for health-related quality of life. It thus fails to take into account the needs of PLHIV who have achieved viral suppression but still must contend with other intense challenges such as serious non-communicable diseases, depression, anxiety, financial stress, and experiences of or apprehension about HIV-related discrimination. We propose adding a 'fourth 90' to the testing and treatment target: ensure that 90 % of people with viral load suppression have good health-related quality of life. The new target would expand the continuum-of-services paradigm beyond the existing endpoint of viral suppression. Good health-related quality of life for PLHIV entails attention to two domains: comorbidities and self-perceived quality of life.
  
  
  
  Health systems everywhere need to become more integrated and more people-centered to successfully meet the needs of virally suppressed PLHIV. By doing so, these systems can better meet the needs of all of their constituents - regardless of HIV status - in an era when many populations worldwide are living much longer with multiple comorbidities.
authors.affiliation: ISGlobal, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. jeffrey.lazarus@regionh.dk.|Centre for Health and Infectious Disease Research (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. jeffrey.lazarus@regionh.dk.
authors.forename: Jeffrey V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Lazarus
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health and Infectious Disease Research (CHIP), Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Safreed-Harmon
authors.affiliation: Imperial College, London, UK.
authors.forename: Simon E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Barton
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, INSERM, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Institut Pierre Louis d'épidémiologie et de Santé Publique, F75013, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Costagliola
authors.affiliation: European AIDS Treatment Group, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Nikos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Dedes
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Del Amo Valero
authors.affiliation: Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Jose M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gatell
authors.affiliation: Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal.|Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baptista-Leite
authors.affiliation: European AIDS Treatment Group, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Luís
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mendão
authors.affiliation: University College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Kholoud
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.affiliation: Global Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vella
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
authors.forename: Jürgen Kurt
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Rockstroh
mesh_terms: D015658:HIV Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D019562:Viral Load
keywords: AIDS; HIV; Health policy; Health systems