Viral load.This is the gold standard for tracking your HIV treatment. It’s the amount of HIV in your blood. The goal of your treatment is to make it so low that it’s undetectable. That means you have too few viruses for tests to pick up, and that you can’t pass on HIV to so...
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HIV-1 medicines may lower the amount of HIV-1 in your blood (your viral load) to undetectable. Undetectable means the amount of virus in your blood is so low that it can’t be measured by a test. Reaching and keeping an undetectable viral load is a good sign that your treatment is w...
Early treatment and good management can help you live for years with an HIV infection. You will need to learn about HIV and manage your health to improve your quality of life. Do the following to help keep your immune system strong: ...
No HIV test can tell if you have the virus just after you’ve been exposed. If you get tested too soon, you may get faulty results. But if you wait too long to learn if you’re HIV-positive, you can miss out on early treatment and also unknowingly spread the virus to others. HIV...
Treatment Care Prevention What is AIDS, and how does it differ from HIV? AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final stage of HIV infection. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a viral infection that slowly weakens your immune system. The virus kills a type of white blood cell...
Treatment Comments More HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks and damages the immune system HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) damages immune system cells and weakens their ability to defend against diseases and infections. The main cells affected are CD4 cells, a type of...
The risk of a woman spreading HIV to her baby can be greatly reduced if she is on medicine that reduces the amount of virus in her blood to undetectable levels during pregnancy. Continues treatment during pregnancy. Does not breast-feed her baby. The baby should also receive Get AccessRelated...
STAGE 2:Clinical Latency.During this stage, HIV reproduction slows dramatically. Individuals are still infectious, though their symptoms may decrease or go away entirely. The duration of the clinical latency period varies from patient to patient. Antiretroviral therapy is a form of treatment developed...
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is atreatment regimen for HIV infection with a combination of three or more classes ofdrugs. Each drug class attacks the virus in a different way at different phases of its replication cycle. ART controls the viral growth and minimizes the chances of transmission of...