Cross posted from Nature’s The Great Beyond blog.
Drugs currently being used to treat AIDS could slow or even stop transmission of the virus itself, two major US conferences were told last week.
Speaking at the AAAS conference in San Diego, Brian Williams of the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis pushed for anyone infected with HIV – the virus which causes AIDS – to be placed on anti-retroviral drugs. This would severely curtail their infectiousness.