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ArticleLancet (London, England)2023

HIV is sexually untransmittable when viral load is undetectable.

Linda-Gail Bekker, Philip Smith, Ntobeko A B Ntusi

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  5. Burden of syphilis among people living with HIV: a large cross-sectional study from Türkiye.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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  16. The HIV epidemic 40 years on.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Linda-Gail BekkerThe Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa; Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa. Electronic address: linda-gail.bekker@hiv-research.org.za.
Philip SmithThe Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa; Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa.
Ntobeko A B NtusiDepartment of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa; University of Cape Town-South African Medical Research Council Extramural Research Unit on Intersection of Noncommunicable Diseases and Infectious Diseases, Cape Town, South Africa.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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HIV InfectionsSexual BehaviorHumansViral Load

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