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San Francisco Getting to Zero Update Hears U=U Message
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2017 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
San Francisco continues to make progress in reducing new HIV infections and expanding access to early treatment, according to a World AIDS Day update on the city's Getting to Zero initiative, held on November 29, 2017.
EACS 2017: High HIV Incidence from Non-Primary Partners and Low PEP and PrEP Use Seen in PARTNER Study
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2017 00:00
- Written by Gus Cairns
HIV incidence among the HIV-negative gay men in the PARTNER 1 and 2 studies, due to sex with partners outside their main relationship, was high, and very high among partners who admitted having condomless anal sex with non-primary partners, researchers reported at the recent 16th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2017) in Milan.
1. HIV Undetectable = Uninfectious
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 22 December 2016 00:00
- Written by HIVandHepatitis.com
Evidence continues to accumulate showing that HIV-positive people on effective combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) with a consistently undetectable viral load have a very low -- perhaps as low as zero -- risk of transmitting the virus.
BHIVA 2017: Large Fall in London HIV Diagnoses Is Due to Combination Prevention, Not Just PrEP
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
The number of new HIV diagnoses among gay men attending 5 key London clinics fell substantially during 2015 and 2016, Valerie Delpech of Public Health England reported at the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference last week in Liverpool.
AIDS 2016: Large Test-and-Treat Study Fails to Show Impact on New HIV Infections
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- Category: Treatment as Prevention
- Published on Monday, 25 July 2016 00:00
- Written by Roger Pebody
The first major research study of "test and treat" as a public health intervention to report its final results -- ANRS 12249 -- has found that the strategy failed to reduce new HIV infections in the African communities where it was provided, according to a report at the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) last week in Durban.
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