It has changed tremendously with the introduction of PrEP and the understanding now that u equals u, undetectable equals untransmittable. And so it's shifting.But it's been a long time coming, and it's not shifting that quickly.
And they even went forever to say that the positive impact of HIV treatment needs to be recognized by criminal justice actors and that undetectable means untransmittable. And so this is so powerful, and it shows that there is progress.
every good and Beautiful Things what happens with it just like that cake in Shimmers with an aura both vibrantly real and undetectable to our five senses each thing in the world is more than itself and just so a source of deep and
a feature of spacetime itself. That's why gravity is undetectable because it's just a feature of the world in which we live rather than something optional that moves within it. In particular, he said that the feature of spacetime that it is is the curvature of spacetime.
You have to take almost every pill every month to achieve viral suppression, to achieve complete adherence, which will, in turn, suppress the level of the virus in the blood to an undetectable level, which means that you can't transmit the virus to somebody else, whether that's a baby, or a sexual partner, or just other ways through injection drug use or breastfeeding.
and you don't want to have the kind of collateral damage. in a way that is undetectable , which is fundamentally a problem.
On the hypo score, it's around 1,200. And afterward, you can see it's almost undetectable over the course of time. So patients are completely protected, as long as the cells continue to function, from hypoglycemia and swings in blood sugar.
And it's got a half-life of about 20 minutes or something, which means, every 20 minutes, you've got half as much left. And so after a couple of hours, there's really undetectable levels. So they had these crazy experiments where they were trying to shoehorn everything into a two hour window sometimes in the middle of the night when
So these laws have effects throughout our ability to impact the epidemic. But I also think it's important that we don't let our response hinge on whether or not a person has an undetectable viral load. We can't let that become the dividing line between who is prosecuted and who is not prosecuted.
The second thing that we need to do is, as Scott said before me, is clearly to take the blame out of HIV, to take stigma out. is that actually, you're safer having sex with a person who has HIV and is in treatment-- because they know, and they are going to have an undetectable viral load--
It wouldn't budge. So coming back later he told us about it. I said, you know, you have to steal secrets, but the theft of the secret has to be undetectable . So what did you do?