Bloomberg School
The journal Science has chosen the clinical trial as the . HPTN 052 is an international HIV prevention trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Two of the 13 HPTN study sites—one in Blantyre, Malawi, and another in Chiang Mai, Thailand—were led by researchers from the Johns ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½.
The study found that if HIV-infected heterosexual individuals begin taking antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems are relatively healthy as opposed to delaying therapy until the disease has advanced, they are 96 percent less likely to transmit the virus to their uninfected partners. were first announced in May 2011 and published three months later in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In an interview conducted last month, David D. Celentano, ScD, MHS, Professor and Charles Armstrong Chair of the abd principal investigator for the Thailand study site, discussed the success of HPTN 052.
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