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The issue here is that the assessment of the Swiss AIDS federation has not been proven. It is not definitive. So it is not really the case that AIDS organizations are having some kind of political trouble accepting the news -- it's that it is not actually news.
First off and most important, and this is something not mentioned in Mr Wall's article, the studies that were analyzed as the basis of the Swiss advisory where exclusively heterosexual couples who engaged in vaginal intercourse. The facts could in fact be different for anal sex between men. We don't know yet.
I actually had an email conversation with Dr Herschel who was one of the authors of the advisory, and he said he wished the advisory had said people on meds with undetectable viral loads "were very unlikely" to transmit HIV, instead of saying so unequivocally that they were incapable of doing so.
Bottom line, not all of the details have been worked out or definitely proven in fact. So don't jump the gun.
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