Antiretroviral therapy for prevention of HIV transmission in HIV‐discordant couples

A Anglemyer, GW Rutherford, T Horvath… - Cochrane database …, 2013 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Antiretroviral drugs have been shown to reduce risk of mother‐to‐child
transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and are also widely used for post …

Heterosexual HIV-1 infectiousness and antiretroviral use: systematic review of prospective studies of discordant couples

RF Baggaley, RG White, TD Hollingsworth… - Epidemiology, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Background: Recent studies have estimated the reduction in HIV-1 infectiousness with
antiretroviral therapy (ART), but high-quality studies such as randomized controlled trials …

Optimal uses of antiretrovirals for prevention in HIV-1 serodiscordant heterosexual couples in South Africa: a modelling study

TB Hallett, JM Baeten, R Heffron, R Barnabas… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Antiretrovirals have substantial promise for HIV-1 prevention, either as
antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-1–infected persons to reduce infectiousness, or as pre …

Antiretroviral therapy to prevent HIV transmission in serodiscordant couples in China (2003–11): a national observational cohort study

Z Jia, Y Mao, F Zhang, Y Ruan, Y Ma, J Li, W Guo… - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background On the basis of the results of the randomised clinical trial HPTN 052 and
observational studies, WHO has recommended that antiretroviral therapy be offered to all …

Systematic review of HIV transmission between heterosexual serodiscordant couples where the HIV-positive partner is fully suppressed on antiretroviral therapy

MR Loutfy, W Wu, M Letchumanan, L Bondy… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background The risk of sexual HIV transmission in serodiscordant couples when the HIV-
positive partner has full virologic suppression on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is …

Advances in HIV prevention for serodiscordant couples

KE Muessig, MS Cohen - Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 2014 - Springer
Serodiscordant couples play an important role in maintaining the global HIV epidemic. This
review summarizes biobehavioral and biomedical HIV prevention options for serodiscordant …

Is transmission of HIV-1 in non-viraemic serodiscordant couples possible?

M Stμrmer, HW Doerr, A Berger, P Gute - Antiviral therapy, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Several studies have shown that HIV-1 transmission in serodiscordant couples is
significantly reduced when the plasma viral load (pVL) in the infected partner is low or …

Sexual transmission of HIV according to viral load and antiretroviral therapy: systematic review and meta-analysis

S Attia, M Egger, M Müller, M Zwahlen, N Low - Aids, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To synthesize the evidence on the risk of HIV transmission through unprotected
sexual intercourse according to viral load and treatment with combination antiretroviral …

HIV-1 transmission among HIV-1 discordant couples before and after the introduction of antiretroviral therapy

SJ Reynolds, F Makumbi, G Nakigozi, J Kagaayi… - Aids, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To evaluate the impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on HIV-1 transmission rates
among HIV-1 discordant couples in Rakai, Uganda. Design: Observational cohort study …

Integrated delivery of antiretroviral treatment and pre-exposure prophylaxis to HIV-1–serodiscordant couples: a prospective implementation study in Kenya and …

JM Baeten, R Heffron, L Kidoguchi, NR Mugo… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Antiretroviral-based interventions for HIV-1 prevention, including antiretroviral
therapy (ART) to reduce the infectiousness of HIV-1 infected persons and pre-exposure …