via AID NETHERLANDS

A landmark study showing major reductions in HIV transmission among discordant couples due to early treatment may fail to have a significant impact on HIV prevention unless governments and donors are willing to turn the science into action, HIV advocates say.

“These are very exciting results that we hope will begin to change the debate and the discourse over the issues around HIV treatment and prevention,” Mitchell Warren, executive director of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC), told IRIN/PlusNews. “Coming right before the UN High Level Meeting on HIV in New York next month, we hope that the results will take the discussion from rhetoric to reality.”

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Sadly, the funniest one was not embeddable but HERE’S A LINK… WATCH IT!

In December, Towleroad posted about Timothy Ray Brown, who has been dubbed “The Berlin Patient” by the medical community, and is said to have been purged of HIV infection via genetically-engineered stem cells.

Veteran SF CBS reporter Hank Plante, who covered the early years of the AIDS epidemic, talks to Brown in his first television interview.

via Towleroad