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.
Salvio – Living with HIV since 2018:
“I definitely choose knowledge. I'm a greedy achiever of knowledge, so to choose me means staying focused, keep studying and sharing this knowledge. To know that my story may be helpful for some other people, even if it's a paradox, makes me choose me.”
Javier – Living with HIV since 2014:
“I choose family, I choose friends, and I choose me, and the most important is the third one. First, focus on yourself. You are going to get to serve your light with the world and illuminate other people. As RuPaul says, if you don’t love yourself how in the hell are you going to love somebody else?”
Nicoletta – Living with HIV since 2015:
“I choose to be happy. I want to live without shame because I have a virus, nothing else.”
