07/11/2025
🛑 Stopping ART (Antiretroviral Therapy) or Choosing Not to Start Is Not an Option
When it comes to HIV treatment, one of the greatest mistakes a person can ever make is stopping ART or never starting at all.
ART is not just medication — it is your life support.
It protects your immune system.
It prevents HIV from damaging your organs.
It keeps your viral load low, allowing you to live a full, long, healthy life.
When someone stops ART, the virus wakes up.
It multiplies fast.
CD4 cells drop.
The body becomes weak.
Opportunistic infections take advantage.
This is how people end up in hospital beds.
This is how people lose weight rapidly.
This is how lives are lost — not because HIV is stronger, but because treatment was stopped.
And for those who never start ART — you are risking your future. The earlier you begin, the better your body responds. Waiting only gives HIV time to destroy what keeps you alive.
Your health is in your hands.
We don’t fear HIV anymore — We manage it.
We live.
We thrive.
We love.
We stay alive because we stay on treatment.
If you ever feel discouraged, tired, overwhelmed or confused about treatment — reach out. Talk. Ask. Get support. Silence and delay will never protect you.
Choose life. Choose treatment. Choose tomorrow.
