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PHealthy t1_j8jdai3 wrote

Reply to comment by MammothBobcat251 in If HIV is a retrovirus which embeds in the hosts DNA, why can a child be born without HIV if a parent has it? by scoobertsonville

Most studies just use ART usage as a proxy for viral load but it makes a huge (>90%) risk reduction.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(22)00289-2/fulltext

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hiv.12397

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00401/full

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MammothBobcat251 t1_j8jfsjj wrote

Thank you for the clarification on those being numbers for people whose viral load is not suppressed. And the data.

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