“When a HIV-positive person is given ARVs, it boosts their immunity, but when a HIV-negative person takes them, it just undermines their immunity and interferes with their body organs.”

What happens when you drink ARVs while negative?

ARV drug resistance is common in HIV-positive people who interrupt HIV treatment. However, with PrEP, Conradie said, “there is no risk – provided that the person remains HIV negative while taking it, because the drug is flushed out of the system 48 hours after being taken”.

Can a person on ARVs infect another person?

U=U is a scientifically proven concept that people with HIV who take ARVs daily as prescribed, and achieve and maintain an undetectable viral load, have effectively no risk of transmitting the virus to someone else through sex.