HIV/AIDS
HIV study named 2011 breakthrough of the year by Science
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 10th, 2012
2012 JAN 10 -- The journal Science has chosen the HPTN 052 clinical trial an international HIV prevention trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, as the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. The study found that if HIV-infected heterosexual individuals begin taking antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems are relatively healthy as opposed to delaying therapy until the disease has advanced, they are 96 percent less likely to transmit the virus to their uninfected partners. Findings from the trial, first announced in...
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