Without ART, people living with HIV can have a viral load of 30,000 to more than 500,000 copies/mL, depending on the stage of infection. While using lab-based plasma sample methods provides the most ...
Cognitive aging in virally suppressed HIV parallels those without HIV, while detectable viral load is linked to steeper cognitive decline.
In a move long encouraged by advocates, the World Health Organization has reaffirmed that people with HIV who consistently take antiretroviral treatment and maintain an undetectable viral load do not ...
Ascertainment of vital status was good in this close-knit rural West African community, with a total loss to follow up of only 6.5%. However, follow up sampling for laboratory tests was less ...
Systematic review of 8 studies in more than 7,700 serodiscordant couples in 25 countries finds people living with HIV with viral loads less than 1,000 copies/mL have almost zero risk of transmitting ...
Reviewed by Carrie D. Johnston, MD, MS, Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. "Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources ...
Living with HIV means becoming fluent in a language of numbers that might seem confusing at first but actually hold the key to your health and future. Two numbers in particular – your viral load and ...
A host of health organizations acknowledge that undetectable means untransmittable (U=U). This means if someone has HIV but is on treatment and undetectable, there is zero risk of them passing it on.