{"id":22264,"date":"2023-08-28T16:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22264"},"modified":"2023-08-28T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T16:56:11","slug":"my-viral-load-is-843-and-cd4-is-28-are-these-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22264","title":{"rendered":"My viral load is 843 and CD4% is 28. Are these good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HI, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>How long have you been HIV positive? and when did you start treatment?<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\/9-interpreting-cd4-results-cd4-count-and-cd4-percentage\/\">CD4%<\/a> of 28 is good. This means that you have an absolute CD4 count within a healthy range (430 -1690). This means HIV is not damaging your immune system.<\/p>\n<p>Your viral load is suppressed. It is not considered undetectable and there is still some risk of transmission to others by sex. Though as your CD4% is high, it suggests that your viral load is still being suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>Most people will have a viral load under 200 within 3 months of starting treatment. When this low there is no risk of sexual transmission. This is explained by <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my viral load is 843 and my CD4% is 28. Are these good numbers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264","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=22264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22265,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22264\/revisions\/22265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}