Hi there<\/p>\n
This is a good question that gets asked for different reasons.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, even when being careful with meds, treatment can be interrupted. Sometimes from forgetting to take meds when travelling, or running out if you stay longer than planned. In some countries, a pharmacy can sometimes run out – though hopefully this is now rare.<\/p>\n
If you only stop treatment once or twice, the risk of resistance is very low. It is also much lower now with modern HIV meds. But if it happens a lot, then all these small risks add up to become larger.<\/p>\n
The risk comes during the first couple of days when you stop and when you restart. This is when drug levels are low enough for resistance to perhaps develop.<\/p>\n
Sometimes we ask about whether viral load will be high enough to be a risk of transmission to sexual partners.<\/p>\n
Luckily, viral load is likely to still be undetectable for at least a week after stopping meds and sometimes longer.<\/p>\n
Viral load also usually quickly returns to being undetectable when ART is restarted.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi! I missed my treatment for 11 days. I have been on treatment consistently for 2 years now. Should I be worried about drug resistance? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948","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=22948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22951,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22948\/revisions\/22951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}