While researchers race to find a vaccine for HIV, many doctors rely on combating the virus with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Now a new study finds that the use of HAART drugs may not only slow the virus's effects on the body, but they may also greatly reduce the rate of new infections.

As reported by the latimes.com, in 1996, 702 people were newly infected in British Columbia while only 837 people received HAART treatment. In 2009, 5,413 received HAART drugs and there were only

This article appears in Jul 15-21, 2010.