TO CRUSH the virus, test everyone for HIV and treat those who have it immediately.
That’s the conclusion of Charles Gilks of the World ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ Organization, and his colleagues, who calculated the impact that such action would have in South Africa, which has a very high prevalence of HIV. They worked out that treating everyone with the virus with antiretroviral drugs would reduce incidence from 20 per 1000 people to just 1 per 1000 within 10 years (The Lancet, ). That’s because the drugs keep levels of the virus in the blood down, making people less infectious – even if they have…
