{"id":10268,"date":"2017-09-26T16:56:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T16:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10268"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:14:55","slug":"will-hiv-tests-be-positive-if-viral-load-is-undetectable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10268","title":{"rendered":"Will HIV tests be positive if viral load is undetectable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/two-essential-blood-tests\">Viral load<\/a> tests look for how much virus can be found in a sample of blood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/appendix-1-different-types-of-hiv-test\">HIV tests<\/a> looks for whether your immune system has ever been in contact with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>As immune responses stay with you for life, even when there is no detectable viral load, the HIV test should always be positive.<\/p>\n<p>Even if an HIV cure is found, the HIV antibody test is likely to still be positive for most people.<\/p>\n<p>However, sometimes people who start ART very soon after infection, might test negative with rapid HIV tests. This is a test problem, thoough &#8211; the person still has HIV. Please see this report for details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/32657\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/32657<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my viral load is undetectable and I do an HIV test, will it show a positive result?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,22,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-testing","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24231,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10268\/revisions\/24231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}