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Key points

  • HIV treatment reduces the risk of transmission by reducing the quantity of HIV circulating in the body.
  • Under specific conditions, effective treatment is likely to be as effective as condom use in limiting HIV transmission during sex.
  • While the individual-level benefits of treatment as prevention are clear, there is greater uncertainty about the population-level benefits.
  • Interventions to reduce the number of people with undiagnosed HIV are key to implementing treatment as prevention in the UK.
  • Some HIV-prevention workers may need to develop new skills and knowledge in order to help individuals and couples understand the implications of treatment as prevention.

HIV treatment as prevention

Published March 2014

Last reviewed March 2014

Next review March 2017

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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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