Model suggests only 9% of new HIV infections due to those with acute HIV infection

Only a small proportion of new, sexually transmitted HIV infections in the United States are due to people with acute, undiagnosed HIV, according to a mathematical model published in the July 31^st edition of AIDS.

Dr Steven Pinkerton from the Center for AIDS Intervention Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin calculated that, although the majority of new HIV infections were due to people who were unaware of their HIV infection status, fewer than 9% of new infections originated in people with acute HIV infection.

This finding is in stark contrast to some estimates which attribute as many as a half of all new HIV infections to patients recently infected with the virus.

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