{"id":13768,"date":"2017-09-17T16:23:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=13768"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:26","slug":"my-partners-viral-load-is-undetectable-will-i-contract-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/13768","title":{"rendered":"My partners viral load is undetectable, will I contract HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for getting in touch.<\/p>\n<p>When someone has an undetectable viral load they cannot transmit HIV even when not using a condom.<\/p>\n<p>The study you are referring to is called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/30108\">the Partner Study.<\/a> Actually, it included about 900 seri-different couples and they had sex more than 58,000 times over a few years.<\/p>\n<p>Also, there were no transmissions when the positive partner had an undetectable viral load.<\/p>\n<p>The people who did become positive, all caught HIV from partners outside their main relationship.<\/p>\n<p>For more info, please see this Q&amp;A for more information:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/32308\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/32308\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My girlfriend and I have been in love for more than two years now, and we&#8217;ve been making love for two years now. We are in a discordant relationship (she is positive and I am negative), she has been on medication for about two years.  I got tested three times over this time and the results come out negative. <\/p>\n<p>I read an article about undetectable viral load that said that of 58,000 discordent couples, and only 11 of them were found positive, on that 11, 10 of them were homosexual and 1 was heterosexual. The heterosexual one got infected by another partner. <\/p>\n<p>Could this be why I am not positive because my partner is undetectable? And on what extent can I know that reaching undetectable viral load stage is the way to stop spreading HIV? I just want to make sure that my partner won&#8217;t pass it to me in the future cause I&#8217;ve been tested for several times&#8230;.none is yet to happen. Please help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25040,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions\/25040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}