Living with HIV doesn’t have to hold you back from owning your future.
Getting tested for and diagnosed with HIV is a pivotal moment in the journey of all people living with HIV. Following a diagnosis, starting treatment is the first step in Choosing You when living with HIV. Treatment works best when you start and stick to your HIV medicine as prescribed, so you can get to and stay undetectable.
Undetectable means there is so little virus in the blood that a lab test can’t measure it. According to research, taking HIV treatment as prescribed, and getting to and staying undetectable, prevents HIV from spreading through sex. This is also called U=U, or “Undetectable equals Untransmittable.”
Your doctor can help you choose a treatment option. Treatments work to reduce the viral load – the amount of virus in a sample of your blood – and get you on the path to being undetectable.
Choosing You means focusing on yourself first. Talk to your doctor today about an HIV treatment that’s right for you for the long-term.
Kim – Living with HIV since 1986:
“Treatment is bigger than just, ‘I'm going to the doctor.' It's having that holistic view and having that power to be able to know that I get to choose what I can do, what's going to make me a healthier person.”
Morris – Living with HIV since 2006:
“Living out loud with my HIV is choosing me. And so, choosing me helps other people that then help themselves.”
Marilynn – Living with HIV since 2006:
“Choosing me is taking care of myself, allowing me to be myself, to feel comfortable, to allow myself to take my medication. I'm here for those special things like my kids' weddings and being a grandma. And so that's choosing me. And by choosing me, it's choosing my children.”
