Editorial: HIV treatment as prevention—it works

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The Lancet  
May 21, 2011  Volume 377  Number 9779  Pages 1719 – 1806
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Editorial
HIV treatment as prevention—it works
The Lancet

Preview
Last week any doubts around treatment as an approach to halt the spread of the HIV epidemic were allayed. An international study showed that antiretroviral treatment can prevent the sexual transmission of HIV among heterosexual couples in whom one partner is HIV-infected and the other is not. UNAIDS described the result as a “serious game changer” for HIV prevention.