The Beginning of the End of AIDS?
- 23 August 2012
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 367 (8), 685-687
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1207138
Abstract
We are at a moment of extraordinary optimism in the response to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A series of scientific breakthroughs, including several trials showing the partial efficacy of oral and topical chemoprophylaxis1,2 and the first evidence of efficacy for an HIV vaccine candidate,3 have the potential to markedly expand the available preventive tools. There is evidence of the first cure of an HIV-infected person. And most important, the finding that early initiation of antiretroviral therapy can both improve individual patient outcomes and reduce the risk of HIV transmission to sexual partners by 96%4 has led many to assert what had so long seemed impossible: that control of the HIV pandemic may be achievable.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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