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Whereas the attitudinal component of mindfulness (curiosity) moderated effects of negative partner engagement in the conflict (i.e., attempts to control, coerciveness, negativity and conflict), the attentional component of mindfulness (decentering) moderated the effect of partner disengagement (i.e., withdrawal).
In some instances the negative partner was happy to rely on treatment but the positive partner was too worried about the risk (however small) of passing HIV on to the one they love.
This study was designed to test whether romantic partners' mindfulness present moment, nonjudgmental awareness during a conflict discussion could buffer the effects of negative partner behaviors on neuroendocrine stress responses.
Interactions tested using multilevel modeling revealed that participants with higher levels of mindfulness during the conflict showed either quicker cortisol recovery or an absence of slowed recovery in the presence of more negative partner behaviors.
In the PARTNER study, which enrolled 548 straight and 340 gay male serodiscordant couples (with one undetectable HIV-positive and one HIV-negative partner) who had penetrative sex 58,000 times without a condom, not a single negative partner contracted the virus from their partner.
These results were saying that the risk of transmitting HIV from someone who was living with the virus and on treatment to a negative partner was negligible to non-existent.
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For others it was the opposite, with the HIV-negative partner anxious about risk of infection despite the HIV positive partner's desire to no longer use condoms.
It doesn't matter if sex has been exclusively with a monogamous H.I.V.-negative partner, if the donor has been abstinent for two decades and continually tested negative for H.I.V. infection, or that other populations can just as likely be infected.
Many of them engaged in high-risk sex and drug activity within days or even hours after their release, and 31percentt said it was "very or somewhat likely" that they would infect their H.I.V.-negative partner.
Before engaging in consensual sex, an HIV-positive person can bring up the app, which displays the phrase "I'm HIV positive," and the HIV-negative partner can tap to confirm that he or she understands.
I cried when the CDC released a statement reiterating what HIV researchers and doctors had been saying for years: When an HIV-positive person is on ART and maintains an undetectable viral load, there is "effectively no risk of sexually transmitting the virus to an HIV-negative partner".
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