Covid-19 crisis raises hopes of end to UK transmission of HIV

Sexual health experts see in lockdown restrictions a once-in-a-lifetime' chance

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In the war against any infectious virus," says Dr Alan McOwan, You're trying to win various battles. You have to keep clobbering it from every direction you can."

That's true for coronavirus, he says, as well as for other viral conditions. An HIV specialist at London's 56 Dean Street sexual health clinic, McOwan sees similarities between Covid-19 and HIV. Both are viruses without a working vaccine, you can be infectious without knowing it, and both rely mostly on close human contact to spread.