{"id":19984,"date":"2022-06-17T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19984"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:26:00","slug":"why-is-my-cd4-count-and-viral-load-healthy-when-i-am-not-on-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19984","title":{"rendered":"Why is my CD4 count and viral load healthy when I am not on medication?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever had a confirmatory test for HIV?<\/p>\n<p>Your CD4 count and viral load are excellent. Both within ranges of someone HIV negative or someone HIV positive on treatment.<\/p>\n<p>However there is one further reason. Have you come across the term Elite Controller? These are a very rare group of people with HIV whose body naturally suppresses HIV.<\/p>\n<p>This means they test HIV positive but their immune system is strong enough to suppress it without treatment.<\/p>\n<p>How regularly do you have CD4 and viral load testing? Being an Elite Controller means that HIV does not have an impact but it is not determined if and when your body will start being impacted by HIV. This is why regular testing is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been HIV positive for 12 years. No health problems and no treatment. Present CD4 count 651 and viral load undetected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984","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=19984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}