Breakthrough in AIDS fight: Drugs radically reduce transmission of virus
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 13:21
in Health & Medicine
A new study shows a 96% reduction in transmission of the AIDS virus to spouses and partners when HIV-positive people take anti-AIDS drugs. The drugs were unexpectedly effective.In what is being hailed as a landmark breakthrough in HIV prevention, a new study has shown that giving anti-AIDS drugs to HIV-positive people can reduce the transmission of the virus to spouses and partners by 96%, U.S. researchers said Thursday.