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An undetectable HIV viral load is also called untransmittable (U=U), and that means as long as you keep taking your HIV medicine as prescribed, you wont spread HIV to your partner(s) through sex. When ...

A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, finds that HIV populations in people with higher viral loads also have higher rates of viral recombination. In ...

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 ...

Residual viraemia — an unquantifiable low, yet detectable HIV viral load — was associated with a more than twofold higher risk for incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) in people with HIV (PWH). This ...

People taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV can achieve very low quantities of the virus in their blood, which standard blood tests cannot detect. Doctors describe these individuals as having ...

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 ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sexually transmitted infections increased among HIV-infected men who have sex with men between 2014 and 2019, ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that infects cells in the immune system. When HIV is not treated, it can cause the immune system to become severely weakened. There are actually two types ...