[Pharmboy]

What are you talking about? When HIV/AIDS patients take their meds and reduce their viral counts to undetectable levels, they do not transmit the disease. HIV is a difficult infection to transmit in industrialized society UNLESS certain types of sex acts are committed or bad needles are shared.

The virulence of the virus is unchanged, though the resistance profile has changed.

I don't get your point...

[xzins]

So it's perfectly safe to have unprotected sex with an HIV positive/Aids patient.

I didn't know that.

[xzins]

The point is that the CDC suggests below that the drugs probably lead to risky behavior and that the drugs to not prevent infectiousness. (See underlined.) http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/msm.htm

The success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may have had the unintended consequence of increasing some MSM’s risk behaviors. Some research suggests that the negative aspects of HIV infection have been minimized since the introduction of HAART, which has led to a false understanding of what living with HIV means and thus can lead to an increase in risky sexual behaviors [16, 17]. For example, some MSM may mistakenly believe that they or their partners are not infectious when they take medication or when they have low or undetectable viral loads [18]. Even though surveys suggest that optimism about HIV treatments is associated with a greater willingness to have unprotected anal intercourse [19, 20], a recent review found that the prevalence of unprotected sexual intercourse was not significantly higher among HIV-positive persons who were receiving HAART or who had an undetectable viral load. However, this review did find that unprotected sex was associated with beliefs about HAART and viral load [21].