Despite the emphasis on U=U as a key HIV prevention strategy since 2016, disturbing data continue to show that the U.S. domestic HIV response is still not leveraging the U=U messaging strategy as a powerful intervention. “Although the evidence-based messaging...
Under a strong partnership between Cambodia and UNAIDS, the country celebrated a landmark event titled “U=U” (Undetectable = Untransmittable) yesterday at the iconic Angkor Wat Temple in Siem Reap Province. To mark the occasion, the event featured traditional...
The Department of Health in the Cordillera region is strengthening the promotion of a public health campaign that aims to reduce human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) stigma, encourage testing and treatment, and empower people living with HIV (PLHIV). The DOH’s...
UNAIDS shares the transformative benefit of U=U for reducing HIV stigma. HIV stigma is one of the most significant barriers to ending AIDS as a public health threat globally, and U=U is a powerful intervention to reduce HIV stigma. Although the U=U concept has been...
Dr Nittaya Phanuphak, the Executive Director of the Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI) discusses how U=U can transform the way people think about HIV. Read more
Today, in a Lambda Legal case filed against the Department of Defense in 2022, a U.S. District Court struck down the last categorical disqualification preventing people living with HIV from joining the U.S. Armed Services, writing: “Defendants’ policies prohibiting...
The CDC and PAC released the comprehensive “Implementing and Scaling Up Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U)” resource guide, to help partners implement and champion U=U in PEPFAR-supported countries and beyond. This guide can help public health officials, healthcare...
In Taiwan, the PRAA have set up a National U=U Day to dispel myths and stigma related to HIV and to educate the public on the modern-day reality of living with HIV. We talked to Fletcher Chui, Director of Communications at PRAA, to discuss why the National U=U Day is...
Australia has become the fourth nation to sign a global declaration that undetectable HIV is untransmissible HIV, almost four years after the “U=U” policy was cemented in our national HIV prevention guidelines. The movement to spread awareness of U=U began in 2016...
For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics has changed its position to say people living with HIV can breast/chest feed their infants if they are on treatment and maintain an undetectable viral load. People living with HIV in the US have risked...
