The PARTNER study, involving more than 750 discordant heterosexual and homosexual couples, are showing that an effective treatment by antiretroviral therapy (ART) prevents the transmission of HIV to the seronegative partner.
This study brings evidence showing that treatment as prevention works.
Results were reported at the 21st Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2014) in Boston, in March 2014