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Treatment as Prevention (TasP) implies taking HIV medications to prevent HIV from being sexually transmitted to partners. HIV patients who take medications for it and maintain an undetectable viral load, can live normal lives as healthy individuals. That apart, they will also not transmit HIV to their partners who do not have HIV, thus, making AIDS prevention possible.
However, for TasP to an effective AIDS therapy, patients have to take preventive measures of AIDS, which are as mentioned ahead:
– Take their medications as prescribed
– Go for regular visits at their doctor’s
– Take routine tests to make sure the viral load stays undetectable
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