Jan Albert, Torsten Berglund, Magnus Gisslén, Peter Gröön, Anders Sönnerborg, Anders Tegnell, Anders Alexandersson, Ingela Berggren, Anders Blaxhult, Maria Brytting, Christina Carlander, Johan Carlson, Leo Flamholc, Per Follin, Axana Haggar, Frida Hansdotter, Filip Josephson, Olle Karlström, Fredrik Liljeros, Lars Navér, Karin Pettersson, Veronica Svedhem Johansson, Bo Svennerholm, Petra Tunbäck, Katarina Widgren
The modern medical treatment of HIV with antiretroviral therapy (ART) has drastically reduced the morbidity and mortality in patients infected with this virus. ART has also been shown to reduce the transmission risk from individual patients as well as the spread of the infection at the population level. This position statement from the Public Health Agency of Sweden and the Swedish Reference Group for Antiviral Therapy is based on a workshop organized in the fall of 2012. It summarizes the latest research and knowledge on the risk of HIV transmission from patients on ART, with a focus on the risk of sexual transmission...
October 2014: Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases