Assisted Conception. 23/07/06
A small Swiss
presented on Monday to the Fourth IAS Conference in Sydney, suggests that HIV-negative women may be able to conceive safely by having unprotected intercourse with their HIV-positive male partner – as long as the partner’s seminal viral load is undetectable. A combination of couples counselling, STI screening, and timed intercourse – with the “psychological safeguard” of two doses of tenofovir (Viread) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – has resulted in a pregnancy rate of over 70%, and no HIV transmission.