Zero HIV Transmissions
in Mixed-Status Couples Having Condomless Sex
March 4, 2014, by San Francisco AIDS Foundation
As reported today at the 21st Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, the multinational PARTNER
study found zero HIV transmissions from condomless sex within mixed-HIV-status couples when the HIV-positive partner had his
or her viral load suppressed below 200 copies/mL.
Alison Rodger of University College London presented interim data from the study, which involved "serodifferent"
couples who reported having condomless sex and not using PrEP or PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis),
and in which the HIV-positive partner was on suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART).
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