Accelerating access and scale-up of optimized ART in low-income and middle-income countries: a call for a coordinated end-to-end approach.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To discuss how aligning the collective power of scientists, regulators, drug companies, donors, implementers and advocates to achieve a single goal - accelerating access to simpler, safer, more robust and more affordable HIV treatment - can rapidly advance antiretroviral optimization efforts and enable scale-up. RECENT
FINDINGS: Harmonization of traditionally sequential processes can address the delays commonly experienced in introducing new products to low-income and middle-income countries, by facilitating an 'end-to-end' approach that mitigates risk and encourages early planning for all aspects of product introduction.
SUMMARY: Planning with the 'end-in-mind' can facilitate healthy markets, benefit the application of new technologies, and accelerate the development of improved products in parallel (versus traditionally sequential efforts).