FINANCIAL TIMES: Giving people with HIV early access to drug treatment sharply reduces the risk of them infecting their sexual partners, according to the findings of a clinical trial halted early because of its unusually strong results.
The US government-funded study of 1,763 “sero-discordant” couples – one with HIV and the other without – across the Americas, Asia and Africa showed that the use of antiretroviral therapy cut infection rates by 96 per cent.
The findings will add to growing calls for greater use of HIV medicines, not only to provide more effective and widespread treatment, but also to improve prevention, with 2.6m infections still taking place each year… (more)
