Thursday is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. This year’s theme is The Conversation About HIV Is Changing: Talk Undetectable — referring to advances in science that are preventing new HIV infections and helping people with HIV live longer and healthier lives.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, Gay and bisexual men in the United States remain the most affected by HIV.
“In 2016, gay and bisexual men accounted for 67 percent (26,844) of all HIV diagnoses and 82 percent of diagnoses among males aged 13 and older,” according to the CDC
Dr. Eugene McCray, director of Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention says he is confident more now than he’s ever been in the preventive benefits of maintaining viral suppression, which has been referred to as “treatment as prevention.”
New data released this year, show no HIV transmissions via sex among HIV-discordant gay male couples when the HIV-positive partner had an undetectable viral load.