HIV: CDC says undetectable viral load “have effectively no risk of sexually transmitting the virus to an HIV-negative partner”.

[RBOP]

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used 27 September, National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, to announce that HIV diagnoses had fallen in white gay and bisexual men and remained stable among African-American gay men between 2010 and 2014, its last complete year of figures.

The CDC went further in its release: for the first time, it attributed this slowing of diagnoses to “the prevention effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy (ART)” and said that data from three studies had convinced it that people who take ART as prescribed and maintain an undetectable viral load “have effectively no risk of sexually transmitting the virus to an HIV-negative partner”.

http://www.eatg.org/news/virally-suppressed-people-have-effectively-no-risk-of-transmitting-hiv-says-us-cdc-but-how-many-are-suppressed/

[oldgent]

I thought the gays would be pleased with this exciting piece of encouragement.

great news for those who were infected by other means.

[Sheryl]

This is not new, has been known for a long time.

[RBOP]

13 hours ago, Sheryl said:

This is not new, has been known for a long time.

yet there is still extreme discrimination, stigmatism and prejudice people and governments against those that are HIV+ve.  Even in civilized Canada, people living with HIV are being convicted of serious criminal offences and sentenced to significant time in prison for not disclosing their HIV status — even when there is no transmission and people have taken highly effective precautions that mean the risk of transmission is exceedingly small.