Aids drugs are capable of reducing risks of HIV infection- Sowetan

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Name of article: Aids drugs are capable of reducing risks of HIV infection

Name of journalist: Ben HIrschler

Name of publication: Sowetan

Date: 14 July 2011

Country: South Africa

Theme:   Health and HIV/AIDS

Skills: Language, sources and use of data

Genre: News

GEM Classification: Gender aware

London: Aids drugs designed to treat HIV can also be used to reduce dramatically the risk of infection among heterosexual couples, two studies conducted in Africa showed for the first time yesterday.
The findings add to growing evidence that the type of medicines prescribed since the mid 1990s to treat people who are already sick may also hold the key to slowing or even halting the spread of the sexual transmitted disease.
The research involving couples in Kenya,Uganda and Botswana found that giving daily Aids drugs reduced infection rate by an average of at least 62% when compared with placebo.

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