The HHS Office of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy (OHAIDP) has been facilitating a process across HHS agencies (CDC, HRSA, NIH, and SAMHSA) to develop easy-to-understand, consistent, and scientifically accurate messaging on the effectiveness of achieving and maintaining an undetectable viral load to prevent transmission of the virus to others through sex. A growing number of large-scale research studies have shown that people living with HIV who take HIV medicine every day as prescribed and get and keep an undetectable viral load have effectively no risk of sexually transmitting HIV to their HIV-negative partners. The goal of this cross-agency effort is to share this important information with health care providers, policy makers, people at risk for and living with HIV, and others through print and web content, social media, trainings, technical assistance, and other activities.
Learn more:
- Evidence of HIV Treatment and Viral Suppression in Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV (CDC fact sheet)
- 10 Things to Know about HIV Viral Suppression (NIAID fact sheet)
- New HIV Research Findings from AIDS 2018 with NIH’s Carl Dieffenbach (HIV.gov blog post)