e-HAP Direct: New Study Finds Risk of Transmitting HIV to Partners Dramatically Reduced When Taking ART

This week the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released findings from a large-scale clinical study which concluded that men and women with HIV reduced their risk of transmitting the virus to their heterosexual partners by 96% when taking oral antiretroviral therapy (ART). The study also found that treatment earlier in the course of HIV reduced the incidence of HIV-associated diseases, especially tuberculosis. These results represent the strongest evidence to date that early HIV treatment dramatically reduces the chance that an HIV positive individual will transmit the virus to a sexual partner.

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/ehap/resources/direct/05132011/discordant.htm

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