Partner treatment 'cuts HIV transmission'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20545587

Treating people with HIV who have uninfected partners significantly reduces transmission rates, researchers in China have found.

A clinical trial had shown benefits of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment before.

But this trial, reported in the Lancet, is the first "real-life" public health programme of its kind.

A UK HIV expert said there was a growing consensus that getting ARV drugs to as many people as need them would cut transmission rates.

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Partner treatment 'cuts HIV transmission' (Original post)	xchrom	Dec 2012	OP
This is pretty basic. When you cut the levels of circulating virus to near-zero	kestrel91316	Dec 2012	#1

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Mon Dec 3, 2012, 12:03 PM

kestrel91316 (45,383 posts)

1. This is pretty basic. When you cut the levels of circulating virus to near-zero

with available treatment, it's going to be hard to spread virus.

I thought they figured this out 15 years ago.

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