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GC: The first thing people often ask is whether they will infect each other with an additional strain of HIV - particularly a drug-resistant one. How common is this?
ST: There are two cases I've seen reported, but not published, where it looks like someone already HIV positive acquired a second infection of drug-resistant virus from their partner. In a Canadian case, a gay man with "non progressive HIV infection", an undetectable viral load and stable CD4 count suddenly started to become ill shortly after starting a sexual relationship with a man with advanced HIV disease who had failed therapy. When both were given a resistance test, the virus obtained from the first man seemed at first sight very similar to that of his new partner's virus.
GC: I've read a report in POZ magazine, however, that states when American scientists tested the same samples they didn't

think they were that similar.