{"id":22266,"date":"2023-08-29T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22266"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:22","slug":"can-i-pass-on-hiv-with-a-viral-load-of-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22266","title":{"rendered":"Can I pass on HIV with a viral load of 200?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>It is great that you are on treatment and your viral load is already suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>When you have a viral load of 200 or less you cannot pass on HIV via sex. This means there is no risk to your partners of passing on HIV.<\/p>\n<p>This is called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U<\/a>. This stands for undetectable = untransmissable. When someone has a viral load below 200\/undetectable and on treatment, the treatment is working well enough that sexual transmission is no longer a risk.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I have been on ARVs for two months now and my viral load is 200. Can I still infect another person with HIV? and if so what are the risks to me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266","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=22266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22267,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266\/revisions\/22267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}