HIV treatment eliminates risk of passing on virus, landmark study says

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New evidence that anti-HIV drugs effectively eliminate the risk of gay men passing on the virus to their sexual partners has marked a fresh breakthrough in the fight to end the AIDS epidemic.

The risk of passing on the HIV virus is completely eliminated by effective drugs treatment, a landmark study has shown, in a significant boost to the prospects of ending the AIDS pandemic.

A study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples, where one partner with HIV took antiretroviral therapy , found that no new cases of transmission to the HIV-negative partner during sex without a condom. PrEP can 'significantly' reduce HIV rates across populations, study saysOver the course of the eight-year study, 15 men were infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS.

Still, Cohen expressed optimism about HIV treatment, underlining that antiretroviral drugs have become more effective, reliable, durable, easier to take, well tolerated and much less expensive."The results of the... study provide yet one more catalyst for a universal test-and-treat strategy to provide the full benefits of antiretroviral drugs. This and other strategies continue to push us toward the end of AIDS.

 

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All those Gay guys colons are probably leaping for joy now.

But HIV is not the only STI out there. Peace of mind in this might lead to epidemics in hepatitis, HSV, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, ...

Great now there will be more butt fuck1ng going on

Cnn, get rid of Brooke Baldwin's Feminist Bullcrap, AND the sponser 'Keto Bullcrap' (that crazy diet is bad for humans, environment and animals)

Clinton Network News (i.e. CNN), FAILS TO REPORT on President Obama who lied to the American people when he claimed he only learned of Hillary Clinton’s use of an unauthorized, non-secure, non-governmental email server while she was Secretary of State ...

Now let’s get those “Tier 5” expensive drug prices reduced! Not many can afford over $1,000/month for these meds!

Maybe some day gay men won’t have to abstain from sex for a year to be allowed to donate blood. Granted that has less to do with HIV treatments and more to do with bigoted voters dying.

VP can open himself up to more guys now.

Only gay men, sexist therapy.

If only God’s word was followed!

Magical medicine YO

That’s fantastic but you do realize that this is not just a gay disease, right?

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