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Positive people on ARVs not sexually infectious say experts
Swiss HIV experts have said that HIV-positive individuals who follow their antiretroviral (ARV) treatment consistently and who do not have any sexually transmitted infections (STIs), cannot infect their sexual partners.
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Antiretroviral medication is the key to HIV-positive people becoming sexually non-infectious, say Swiss HIV experts. (Image: Juda Ngwenya/PlusNews)
Four of Switzerland's leading HIV experts made the controversial statement in this week's Bulletin of Swiss Medicine on behalf of the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV/AIDS after reviewing studies on the rates of transmission among sero-discordant couples, in which one partner is HIV positive and the other is negative.
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