Hi there<\/p>\n
Thanks for your question and for letting us answer this online.<\/p>\n
First, how are you doing? HIV is still usually a shock but if you are finding this difficult now, it will get easier.<\/p>\n
Secondly, this is an interesting question but other people have also asked.<\/p>\n
Technically, at the point that your viral load was tested, your partner would have a similar 100% protection as someone taking treatment with the same viral load.<\/p>\n
In practice though, this is not the same because not being on treatment will make it easier for your viral load to increase to higher levels that would cause a risk. Maybe the next day it might be 200 or 2000. Even if it drops lower again, you will never know the actual risk at any time.<\/p>\n
Even if you don’t start ART now and the next test in a few months is still low, it is very likely that at some time your viral load will steadily increase. If this happened between tests you could easily have a viral load of several thousand for several months before finding out. During this time your partners would definitely be at risk.<\/p>\n
If you are able to start treatment (and you decide to do this) then your viral load would then stay undetectable and your partners would have zero risk.<\/p>\n
I am not sure whether treatment guidelines in Brazil allow this but please talk to your doctor about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi! I was recently diagnosed in Brazil with HIV and have not yet started\u00a0 antiretroviral therapy.<\/p>\n
My Viral Load test was only 28 copies \/ mL.\u00a0 (I never used antiretrovirals).\u00a0 <\/p>\n
So, with this 28 copies\/mL of viral load, can I transmit HIV if I have sex without a condom?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16010","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\/16010","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=16010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25123,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16010\/revisions\/25123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}