NIH Director’s Blog: For HIV, Treatment is Prevention
NIH Director Francis Collins discusses the Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U) concept, which establishes that “people who take [antiretroviral therapy (ART)] daily as prescribed, and who achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load (the amount of HIV in the blood), cannot sexually transmit the virus to others,” and highlights studies that confirm this finding (1/22).