- Over the years antiretrovirals (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 because she’s spent the past 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? Bhekisisa’s Health Beat team visited The Aurum Institute’s POP INN clinic in Kempton Park to find out.
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