Article 4EC7B End to Aids in sight as huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission

End to Aids in sight as huge study finds drugs stop HIV transmission

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Sarah Boseley and Hannah Devlin
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Paper says risk between male partners is zero if virus fully suppressed by antiretrovirals

An end to the Aids epidemic could be in sight after a landmark study found men whose HIV infection was fully suppressed by antiretroviral drugs had no chance of infecting their partner.

The success of the medicine means that if everyone with HIV were fully treated, there would be no further infections.

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