In an analysis of nearly 4,000 low-income patients over a 2-year period, more than three-quarters were able to suppress the virus, according to Kathleen McManus, MD, of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. But 85.5% of those who enrolled in ACA health plans when they became available in 2014 reached that treatment stage, compared with 78.7% of those who remained on older forms of HIV coverage, McManus told reporters at the annual IDWeek meeting, held jointly by four medical organizations with an interest in infectious illness.
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