treatment as prevention meaning
Treatment as prevention (TasP) will only be effective alongside the scale up of testing programmes and ART adherence support. Explore this page to find out more about how HIV treatment is being used as prevention, test and treat strategies, limitations of treatment as prevention and the future of treatment as prevention. Treatment as prevention (TasP) refers to HIV prevention methods and programmes that use antiretroviral treatment (ART) to decrease the risk of HIV transmission. When adhered to consistently, ART can reduce the HIV viral load in an individualâs blood, semen, vaginal fluid and rectal fluid to such a low level that blood tests canât detect it.1 This is described as an 'undetectable' viral load or viral suppression.