Have drug treatment lowered HIV/AIDS cases in the US?

Drug treatment itself has not lowered HIV/AIDS cases in the US. However, people are becoming more and more aware of the disease and how to protect themselves from contracting it. Awareness has helped to lower HIV/AIDS cases but not actual drug treatment.

AWARENESS has lowered HIV/AIDS, and drug treatments are starting to make it a chronic disease instead of an automatic death sentence. However, HIV/AIDS is making a comeback in recent years as people are seeing less serious consequences of it and become careless.

hiv-aids can be prevented by safe sexual practices ,this is the only way to lower the number of cases.
anti-hiv drugs are given for two purposes--
1.post exposure prophylaxis---can theoratically reduce the chances of getting hiv infection.
2.therapy of established hiv-aids---doesnot cure but prolongs useful life.

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