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December 1st marks the 35th World AIDS Day. With the deepening of AIDS research and the development of treatment drugs, people's understanding of AIDS is also quietly changing, AIDS has been defined as a preventable and controllable chronic infectious disease. In a sense, AIDS is simpler and easier to control than traditional chronic diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes.

Through effective antiviral treatment, the virus nucleic acid cannot be detected in the blood, which can not only protect the immune function of infected people from further damage, but also restore and rebuild the already damaged immune function. Moreover, these patients are not considered to be infectious. AIDS infected people can work, study and live as normal as ordinary people.

What is U=U?

Detectable = Untransmittable. Detectable = untransmittable.

Patients who take daily prescribed antiretrovirals and maintain an undetectable viral load are essentially at no risk of sexually transmitting the virus to an HIV-negative partner.

Conditions to ensure U=U:

u HIV antiviral therapy: HIV-infected people are receiving effective antiviral therapy
u Good compliance: HIV-infected people have good medication compliance
u Persistent undetectable disease load: undetectable HIV viral load in HIV infected persons, and undetectable HIV viral load lasting for more than 6 months
u Sexual activity only: "Not contagious" is limited to sexual activity
u Regular testing: dynamic monitoring of viral load at least 2 times a year

Key points: the treatment process may appear a short increase in viral load, if the virus breakthrough is relatively high, there is a risk of spreading the disease, so even if the disease load detection has been lower than the detection limit, sex or use condoms, at the same time can avoid syphilis, gonorrhea, condyloma and other venereal diseases.

Thanks to antiviral treatment, the survival period of HIV infected people has been significantly extended, approaching the life expectancy of the local population. With the increase of age, non-HIV-related diseases of HIV-infected people, such as obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, high uric acid and other metabolic diseases become more prominent. Metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events have become important factors affecting the prognosis of HIV-infected people.