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Abolishing HIV in Rwanda

Giving treatment to specific high-risk people may bring down HIV faster than distributing it equally

Expanded HIV testing may find more acute infections as well as more late presenters

Standard HIV treatment achieves high concentrations in female genital tract and suppresses shedding of virus

HIV viral load in semen can differ in two samples provided within one hour

South African treatment guidelines need to consider viral load, not CD4 count, to achieve greater impact of treatment as prevention: study

Massive scale-up of HIV testing, plus HIV treatment on diagnosis, needed to curtail UK gay epidemic

Only having sex with same-status partners is an HIV prevention strategy for 40% of gay men

No-one with an undetectable viral load, gay or heterosexual, transmits HIV in first two years of PARTNER study

Press conference at CROI 2014. Photo by Liz Highleyman, hivandhepatitis.com.