When one partner in a couple is infected with HIV and the other is not, treatment with antiretroviral drugs can dramatically lower the chances of the infected partner passing along the disease to his or her mate, a new evidence review finds.
Patients with HIV receive a combination of drugs is given as part of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to stop progression of the disease. The new review discovered that when patients with HIV are on ART, their partners had more than a five-fold lower risk of getting the virus than in couples without treatment.
“We weren’t particularly surprised having followed this literature for awhile,” said reviewer George Rutherford of Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. “The magnitude of the effect was somewhat surprising, though.”
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