• DOI:10.1001/jama.2018.21167
Corpus ID: 58599661

HIV Viral Load and Transmissibility of HIV Infection: Undetectable Equals Untransmittable.

@article{Eisinger2019HIVVL,
  title={HIV Viral Load and Transmissibility of HIV Infection: Undetectable Equals Untransmittable.},
  author={Robert W. Eisinger and Carl W. Dieffenbach and Anthony S Fauci},
  journal={JAMA},
  year={2019},
  volume={321 5},
  pages={
          451-452
        }
}

Robert W. Eisinger, Carl W. Dieffenbach, Anthony S Fauci

Published in JAMA 2019

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In 2016, the Prevention Access Campaign, a health equity initiative with the goal of ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic as well as HIV-related stigma, launched the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U) initiative.1 U = U signifies that individuals with HIV who receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) and have achieved and maintained an undetectable viral load cannot sexually transmit the virus to others. This concept, based on strong scientific evidence, has broad implications for treatment of HIV… CONTINUE READING

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