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Eventually, you want to have an undetectable viral load -- one so low that a lab test can’t find it. When you have an undetectable viral load, you can’t spread the virus to your sexual partner(s).
The treatment's goal is to bring the viral load to "undetectable" levels, which generally means less than 40 to 75 copies of the virus per one milliliter of blood, though this range of numbers can ...
Another patient's blood viral load became undetectable within four weeks of starting therapy but he "was a sustained semen shedder." His virus was still detectable in seminal fluid for the entire six ...
I've been living for 30-something years with HIV and never had a detectable viral load." Harrigan-Thompson discovered her unusual status when her husband was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 1989.
The PARTNER study, which two years ago created headlines by establishing that the chance of an HIV-positive person with an undetectable viral load transmitting their virus was very low and quite ...
The risk of transmission by someone who has a viral load too low to be quantified by some viral load tests, but where the test still detects HIV’s presence, is “almost zero or negligible” in ...
HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system, and if not treated, it can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. LaTonya has been living with HIV for about 20 years, she said ...
Background: There have been no previous studies of the long-term survival and temporal changes in plasma viral load among HIV-2 infected subjects. Methods: 133 HIV-2 infected and 158 HIV ...
Three recently approved drugs, when used in combination and with optimized background therapy, ... TRIO of New HIV Drugs Leads to Undetectable Viral Load in 90% of Treatment-Experienced Patients.
For couples where the HIV-positive person had an undetectable viral load — meaning their drug treatment suppressed the presence of HIV in their blood below 200 copies per milliliter — zero ...