Kim Kardashian shows off her figure in skintight gown with cut-outs on the back for a new Balenciaga campaign Mystery over Meghan Markle's Nelson Mandela claims as actor who says he's the ONLY South African in Lion King live action film insists he's NEVER met Duchess Those medicines can mount an immediate attack on any trace of HIV that enters the person's bloodstream, before it is able to spread throughout the body. It consists of two medicines (tenofovir dosproxil fumarate and emtricitabine). This pill works like ' the pill' - it is taken daily and is 99 percent effective at preventing HIV infection (more effective than the contraceptive pill is at preventing pregnancy). PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) became available in 2012. Public health bodies around the world now acknowledge that U=U (undetectable equals untransmittable). It suppresses the virus, preventing it from developing into AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), which makes the body unable to withstand infections.Īfter six months of religiously taking the daily pill, it suppresses the virus to such an extent that it's undetectable.Īnd once a person's viral load is undetectable, they cannot transmit HIV to anyone else, according to scores of studies including a decade-long study by the National Institutes of Health. The drug, a triple combination, turned HIV from a fatal diagnosis to a manageable chronic condition. In 1996, anti-retroviral therapy (ART) was discovered. It suppresses their viral load so the virus is untransmittable Here is more about the new life-saving and preventative drugs: That has spurred a movement to downgrade the crime of infecting a person with HIV: it leaves the victim on life-long, costly medication, but it does not mean certain death. In recent years, research has shown that ART can suppress HIV to such an extent that it makes the virus untransmittable to sexual partners. Now, a person can live as long a life as anyone else, despite having HIV.ĭrugs were also invented to lower an HIV-negative person's risk of contracting the virus by 99%. Prior to 1996, HIV was a death sentence. Then, anti-retroviral therapy (ART) was made to suppress the virus.
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