Check out G&STC’s Therapist Jae Majors Talking With Healthline About Living With an HIV Positive Family Member
Check out G&STC Therapist & Clinical Coordinator and Supervisor Jae Majors talking with Gabrielle Kassel at Healthline about living with an HIV positive family member.
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“Only someone with a detectable viral load can transmit HIV. Current HIV medications effectively suppress the virus, making it undetectable.
‘This means their risk of transmitting the infection to a negative person is very, very low — even if the negative person comes into contact with that positive person’s bodily fluids,’ explains Jae Majors, LMSW, a clinical supervisor and therapist at The Gender & Sexuality Therapy Center in New York City.”
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“When a person first finds out they have HIV, they need to focus on their own emotional and physical well-being, says Majors. ‘Having to worry about educating other people about HIV can be very draining and taxing to a person who’s positive,’ he says.”
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