{"id":298,"date":"2018-02-05T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=298"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:25","slug":"chances-of-infecting-partner-if-i-have-an-undetectable-viral-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/298","title":{"rendered":"Chances of infecting partner if I have an undetectable viral load?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your questions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the answer to your question is a clear &#8220;no&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Having an undetectable viral load makes HIV untransmittable. The evidence for this is at this link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/32308\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/32308<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was already believed by some experts in 2008 (when this question was first answered). The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/the-swiss-statement\">statement on behalf of the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV and AIDS<\/a>\u00a0authored by four of Switzerland&#8217;s foremost HIV experts said that an HIV infected person on ART with an undetectable viral load cannot transmit HIV through sexual contact. This information was published in the<em> Bulletin of Swiss medicine<\/em> in January 2008 was largely based on data from heterosexual sex.<\/p>\n<p>See this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/the-swiss-statement\">factsheet on the Swiss Statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: This answer was updated in February 2018 from a question first posted online in February 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been positive for three years now and started treatment two months ago. If my viral load is undetectable can I still infect someone? Are the chances of infecting my partner still the same if we had unprotected sex?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","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=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25011,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/25011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}