{"id":19099,"date":"2022-01-26T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19099"},"modified":"2022-01-27T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:02:40","slug":"what-is-a-good-viral-load-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19099","title":{"rendered":"What is a good viral load count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>The answer depends on whether or not someone is taking HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>HIV treatment (called ART) is recommended for nearly everyone who is living with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>When on ART, viral load should become undetectable. This is defined as having viral load lower than 200 copies\/mL.<\/p>\n<p>A viral load under 200 means your treatment is working very well. It also means you cannot transmit HIV sexually (even without a condom).<\/p>\n<p>This is a link to a guide for <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/viral-load#:~:text=Viral%20load%20is%20the%20most,more%20important%20than%20condom%20use.&amp;text=When%20viral%20load%20is%20very,is%20zero%20risk%20of%20HIV.\">further information about viral load<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a good viral load count?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}