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Successful Treatment Reduces HIV Infection Risk.(treatment of bacterial cervical inflammation reduces risk of HIV transmission)
2001 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Successful treatment of bacterial cervix inflammation reduces the risk of HIV transmission, say AIDS researchers in the United States.
R.S. McClelland and colleagues at the University of Washington compared the presence of HIV genetic material in cervical secretions before and after successful therapy for cervicitis.
HIV material was much less likely to be shed in mucosal secretions after resolution of the inflammation, McClelland et al. reported in the journal AIDS. This was true of women infected with either gonorrhea or chlamydia, as well as women with non-specific cervicitis, study data showed.
The women studied were treated at an STD clinic in Kenya ("Treatment of cervicitis is associated with decreased cervical shedding of HIV-1," AIDS, 2001;15(1):105-110).
Both HIV infected cells and raw HIV genetic material were present in reduced quantities after successful cervicitis treatment, ...
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