U=U (Undetectable equals Unstransmittable)
for HIV prevention
- Depends on your partner.
- 100% effective if the partner’s viral load is undetectable.
- Depends on your partner taking their HIV treatment medications regularly.
A strategy where people living with HIV, on treatment, can’t transmit it through sex if their viral load is undetectable.
You must trust and communicate with your partner. You need to know they are taking their medication and remain undetectable.
Extremely well – like 100% well.
If your partner has an undetectable viral load, they can’t transmit the virus to you through sex.
Anyone.
You don’t use this strategy. It relies on your partner taking their HIV medications regularly and staying undetectable.
Your partner can achieve and then stay undetectable.
If your partner misses doses of their HIV meds, their viral load may become detectable.
None for you. But, your partner could have side effects from their HIV medications.
No. If your partner is undetectable, you’re good.
There is no cost to you.
It is 100% effective in preventing HIV. It’s the best method we have. But, your partner must take their meds and be undetectable.
Your protection from HIV depends on your partner taking their HIV meds. They must take them regularly.
It doesn’t matter since your partner takes this medication.
It works in your partner’s body. It stops the virus from multiplying. This makes their viral load undetectable.
