By
Melissa Rollock | Fri, June 28, 2013 - 12:11 AM
Barbados
has scored a small victory in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Local
researchers have made a ground-breaking discovery – HIV positive people who go
on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) here, have been showing a suppressed viral
load.
To
put it simply, they are non-infectious.
This
phenomenon was documented by Professor of Vascular Research at the University
of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill campus, Clive
Landis, and head of the National HIV/AIDS programme, Dr Anton Best, in a body
of research entitled: Ten-Year Trends in Community HIV Viral Load in Barbados:
Implications for Treatment as Prevention.
It
was a collaboration between the UWI and the National HIV/AIDS programme and
published in a leading international medical journal called PLOS One in March.
(BGIS)