A landmark study recently found that all HIV-positive participants who received treatment of fully-suppressing antiretroviral drugs had zero risk of passing along the virus to their partner, finally giving the AIDS epidemic an end in sight, reported the Guardian.
The study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, followed 1,000 HIV-positive gay males over the course of eight years. By the end of the study, there was not a single case in which the HIV-positive partner receiving treatment passed along the virus to their partner, even without using a condom. Earlier studies have shown that the same treatment has the same effects on heterosexual couples in which one partner is infected with the virus.
Co-leader of the paper, Alison Rodger from University College London, commented on how promising the results of the study were and on their implications for the AIDS epidemic moving forward.
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