Treating individuals with HIV prevents its spread, experts say

Treating HIV-positive individuals with drugs also helps slow the spread of the virus, according to health experts who advocate a treatment-as-prevention approach to the disease. 

“If we could find everybody with HIV, link them to care, make sure they were getting treatment and doing well, we could make a huge dent in this epidemic,” said Rochelle Walensky, an AIDS researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital.