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How taking ARVs daily stops those with HIV from transmitting the virus

Mohale Moloi and Yolanda Mdzeke

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January 10, 2024

Mohale Moloi and Yolanda Mdzeke

January 10, 2024

Over the years ARVs have changed HIV from a death sentence to a chronic disease, but only if you take your daily dose. And that’s not always easy.

Nurse Mapaseka Mabena knows this first-hand because she’s spent the last decade motivating people with the virus to start and stay on meds for life.

She teaches them that ARVs help the body fight the virus and that when tests can’t find HIV in their blood, it can’t be spread to others.

How does this concept, called U=U, work? Our Health Beat team visited The Aurum Institute’s POP INN clinic in Kempton Park to find out.

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Mohale Moloi

Mohale Moloi is Bhekisisa's television producer and a health journalist.

Yolanda Mdzeke

Yolanda Mdzeke is a multimedia reporter at Bhekisisa.

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