Our HIV Testing and Management with Primary Care regimen may involve multiple long-term therapies to help achieve a reduction in your viral load to the point that it's undetectable.
You're Never Alone
More than 36 million people worldwide are living with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. In the United States alone, more than 1.3 million Americans carry the virus, that's according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While there is no universal cure for HIV, there are better medical treatments available allowing more people to live longer and with a better quality of life.
Treatment
HIV treatment (antiretroviral therapy) can help you stay healthy for many years and prevent you from transmitting HIV to others. Treatment suppresses the amount of HIV in your body fluids to the point where standard tests are unable to detect any HIV, or can only find a tiny trace. This is known as "having an undetectable viral load" or "being undetectable".
Having an undetectable viral load does not mean your HIV is gone. If you stopped treatment, your viral load would rise and become detectable again. Being undetectable does mean that you cannot pass on HIV during sex. This is what is meant by the slogan 'Undetectable = Untransmittable' ('U=U').
