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MammothBobcat251 t1_j8j7u5n wrote

Reply to comment by PHealthy in If HIV is a retrovirus which embeds in the hosts DNA, why can a child be born without HIV if a parent has it? by scoobertsonville

Question. If the mother is vitally suppressed during pregnancy does that reduce the risk of vertical transmission or does the constant connection between mother and child in the womb counteract that process?

Great response btw.

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PHealthy t1_j8jdai3 wrote

Most studies just use ART usage as a proxy for viral load but it makes a huge (>90%) risk reduction.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhiv/article/PIIS2352-3018(22)00289-2/fulltext

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hiv.12397

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00401/full

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MammothBobcat251 t1_j8jfsjj wrote

Thank you for the clarification on those being numbers for people whose viral load is not suppressed. And the data.

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