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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.
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.
