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Given the role that HIV/AIDS plays in many flow cytometry circles, it should come as no surprise that researchers and cytometrists will be talking about the recently released statement by the Bulletin of Swiss Medicine on behalf of the Swiss Federal Commisssion. The Commission has made public its consensus that persons who are HIV positive are not sexually infectious if they are STI/STD free and are being treated effectively with anti-retroviral medication. Central to meeting the "effective treatment" criteria is six months or longer of an undetectable viral load for a patient on anti-retroviral medication. Discussions outside the scientific realm are attempting to deal with the legal and ethical implications of the Commissions statement. Feel free to open or join a discussion about this topic or others in our forum !

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