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The World Health Organization now
recommends providing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to HIV-positive partners in
serodiscordant couples, even if their immune system is still strong, given
research showing that such treatment can prevent transmission.
The new guidelines were lauded by
Dr. Bernhard Schwartlander, the director of the evidence, strategy, and results
department at UNAIDS. He said the recommendations “respond to the scientific
evidence that has been accumulated over the past year” showing that when an
infected partner is treated with ARVs, “then the chance that the person would
pass on the virus to a partner is dramatically reduced.”
“About half of all people living
with HIV who live in a regular partnership have a partner who’s not of the same
status - a partner who is HIV-negative, both for men and for women,” said Schwartlander.
Doctors Without Borders also praised
WHO’s announcement, calling the guidelines a major advance in halting the
global epidemic.
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dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
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