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closeCorrection in Discussion
Posted by mloutfy on 26 Apr 2013 at 19:05 GMT
Authors have found a miscalculation in the Discussion of the above article, the last sentence in the first paragraph at the top of page 10 should read “An HIV transmission rate per person-years an be converted to lifetime risk by multiplying the upper end of our 95% CI (which was 0.0001 in our sensitivity analysis) by 20 to 50 years which is the expected life expectancy of someone diagnosed to be HIV positive who starts on cART [39,40]. This would translate into approximately a 1 in 200 to 1 in 500 lifetime risk of HIV transmission to the uninfected partner (i.e. 0.2–0.5%; which is equivalent to 0.1% risk per 10 years of relationship and sexual activity).” Also, the last sentence of the second paragraph on page should read: “In a similar fashion to how Attia et al. reported, the upper limit of the 95% CI for our sensitivity analysis revealed one transmission in 10,000 person-years from data with 2,848 person-years of follow-up, more person-years being reported on the topic to date.”