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How Bruce Richman turned his HIV diagnosis into a global movement

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Created in partnership with and funded by ViiV Healthcare.

Bruce Richman has a Harvard law degree, a gift for making people listen, and a personal HIV diagnosis that redirected the course of his life.  As the founder of the Prevention Access Campaign (PAC) and the architect of the “Undetectable = Untransmittable” (U=U) movement, Richman turned his personal medical diagnosis into a human rights crusade that reached every corner of the globe. 

Launched in 2016, the U=U campaign became a global health and human rights movement built on a single, science-backed truth: people living with HIV who maintain an undetectable viral load cannot sexually transmit the virus.   

Brilliant minds are breaking through barriers, driving innovations and progress that are transforming the lives of all those impacted by HIV and bringing us closer........

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