Science Names HIV "Treatment as Prevention" Trial Top 2011 Breakthrough

Science has named as its breakthrough of the year a clinical trial, HPTN 052, which found that people infected with HIV who initiate antiretroviral therapy immediately reduce the risk of heterosexual transmission to their partners by 96 percent.

The journal said that "the HPTN 052 results and other recent successes have raised hopes that combining such interventions can now end AIDS epidemics in entire countries, if not the world," according to the AFP.

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