The Effect of Buprenorphine on Human Immunodeficiency Virus Viral Suppression.
Jongyeon KimCatherine R LeskoAnthony T FojoJeanne C KerulyRichard D MooreGeetanjali ChanderBryan LauPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
Our results indicate that the initiation of BUP results in an increase in the probability of being virally suppressed after accounting for both measured and unmeasured confounders. Persons with opioid use disorder should initiate BUP to not only treat substance use but also to increase viral suppression allowing for treatment as prevention.