Declining mortality rates in HIVInfected people who inject drugs during a seek-and-treat initiative in Vancouver, Canada, 1996-2014: A prospective cohort study

Abstract

We estimated rates and predictors of death among a community-recruited prospective cohort of 961 human immunodefciency virus (HIV)-infected people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada, between 1996 and 2014. Te results demonstrated signifcant declines in age-adjusted all-cause and HIV-related mortality rates since 2010, coincident with the scale-up of a community-wide "seek-and-treat" campaign.