Today is National HIV Testing Day
Today marks the seventeenth National HIV Testing Day.
The National Association of People With AIDS founded National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) in 1995 in response to the HIV epidemic's steady growth - especially in marginalized communities like people of color and men who have but also in middle-income neighborhoods where people thought, "it doesn't happen here."
All Americans need to know they should Take the Test, Take Control, at least once a year. And we should also know that people with HIV who are in treatment with HAART drugs are significantly less at risk for passing their virus on the others than people with HIV who are not in treatment.
Test-and-treat is not the whole answer to ending the epidemic, but it's an indispensable first step.
(Via NAPWA)
The National Association of People With AIDS founded National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) in 1995 in response to the HIV epidemic's steady growth - especially in marginalized communities like people of color and men who have but also in middle-income neighborhoods where people thought, "it doesn't happen here."All Americans need to know they should Take the Test, Take Control, at least once a year. And we should also know that people with HIV who are in treatment with HAART drugs are significantly less at risk for passing their virus on the others than people with HIV who are not in treatment.
Test-and-treat is not the whole answer to ending the epidemic, but it's an indispensable first step.
(Via NAPWA)
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