Twice-yearly injection offers 100% protection against HIV

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34 points·gmays··9 comments

All other things aside, can I say how miraculous this feels? I grew up in the 80s and 90s and when we were learning about HIV and AIDS in school, it felt terrifying and unstoppable. The leaps and bounds that medicine has made over the last 40 years on this front is amazing.

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Release a month ago: https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea...

And lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742163

Quite frankly, I'm really bothered by the HIV drug commercial that says that it makes the virus "undetectable"

So you're saying that it's still there, but you'll test negative for your partner? Disingenuous and disgusting.

Undetectable = Untransmittable has been a mantra in the field for years because there is good data that people who have 0 detectable circulating copies of the virus cannot transmit it.

Interesting, can you provide some sources for that claim? Haven't heard that before

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/index.html

Transmission rates: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/preventionstrategies....

The second link shows transmission rates of 0.00 (zero transmission) in every study of many studies for undetectable.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/treatment-prev...

https://www.hiv.gov/blog/science-validates-undetectable-untr...

You called something disingenuous and disgusting without having looked up the basic facts of it?

I mean just Google that term and you will get a lot of information. There are multiple public health campaigns regarding it

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