If you are HIV-negative, you have several options to prevent HIV.

• Use condoms the right way every time you have sex
• Choose less risky sexual behaviors
• Reduce your number of sexual partners
• Never share needles or other drug equipment
• Talk to your healthcare provider about PreEP, a medication that HIV-negative people can take to help prevent them from getting HIV
• Get tested for HIV at least once a year

If you are HIV-positive, there are several steps you can take to protect others.

• Getting treatment may prevent transmitting HIV to others. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is an HIV medication that can reduce the amount of HIV in the blood (referred to as viral load). If you have an undetectable viral load, you will not transmit HIV through sex.
• Use condoms and ask your sexual partner to take PreEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis)