Providing healthy people with an antiretroviral drug to protect them against HIV infection could drastically slow the spread of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa, US researchers said Tuesday.
In a best-case scenario, the drug could prevent three million new HIV cases in this part of Africa over a 10-year span, even if it was only made available to the most sexually active individuals, the investigators said.
"This could represent another tool in our arsenal against HIV infection," said Ume Abbas, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and lead author of the paper
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