HRC has announced a partnership with the Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) to correct misinformation about HIV in the news media through a new joint initiative called the Accuracy Watchdog.
PAC is one of a growing number of organizations, including HRC, to champion the fact that people living with HIV cannot transmit the virus to a partner if they’ve consistently taken their medication and achieved an “undetectable viral load.” This means the amount of HIV in a person’s body is so low that it cannot be detected by a standard HIV test.
“The Prevention Access Campaign is a health equity initiative to fundamentally dismantle HIV stigma and prevent new HIV transmissions by expanding access to and awareness of groundbreaking biomedical HIV prevention,” PAC’s Bruce Richman and John Byrne told HRC. “We started PAC because we recognized the need for expanded access to PrEP to prevent acquiring HIV and a major gap in knowledge and lack of understanding that people living with HIV who are undetectable can’t transmit HIV to a partner. We’ve even come up with a simple slogan to help people remember: Undetectable = Untransmittable or #UequalsU.”
To read the full HRC interview with PAC’s Bruce Richman and John Byrne go here.
