This infographic, entitled Undetectable=Untransmittable, explains that U=U means that people with HIV who achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load—the amount of HIV in the blood—by taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) daily as prescribed cannot sexually transmit the virus to others. Thus, treatment for HIV is a powerful arrow in the quiver of HIV prevention tools.
Oral presentation by Michael J. Li, UCLA CHIPTS that discusses MCC patients’ trajectories of VS from 12-months prior to MCC enrollment to 36 months following MCC enrollment, these trajectories differed by stimulant use housing instability, and depressive symptom severity as reported by participants at MCC enrollment.
Slowing the Emerging Opioid Epidemic in California Friday, November 16, 2018, meeting summary report. The purpose of the meeting is to convene a cross-disciplinary group of experts at UCLA to consider current science and policy considerations related to the US opioid crisis, discuss California opioid surveillance data and research opportunities related to preventing an outbreak in the region, and consider the implications for vulnerable populations with a particular focus on those groups affected by HIV (e.g., people who inject drugs [PWID], substance-using minority men who have sex with men [MSM] of color)