{"id":5783,"date":"2021-05-01T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=5783"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:42","slug":"can-we-have-unproteced-sex-if-my-boyfriend-is-undetectable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/5783","title":{"rendered":"Does undetectable mean that someone is not infectious?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, having an undetectable viral load when on HIV treatment (ART) reduces the risk of transmission to zero.<\/p>\n

However, this is\u00a0separate to your second question about what you and your boyfriend decide.<\/p>\n

i-Base provide information for people to then make their own choices and decisions.<\/p>\n

So the decision on whether or not to use condoms is up to you. You should not feel pressured as you need to be happy with the choice you make.<\/p>\n

The PARTNER study<\/a>\u00a0provides perhaps the most significant evidence that the risk is zero. This study included more that 900 couples where one partner was positive and the other was negative. These couples were not using condoms.<\/p>\n

After more than 58,000 times that couples had sex without using condoms, there were ZERO HIV transmissions. The PARTNER 2 study reported the same results after gay male couples had sex more than 77,000 times without condoms.<\/p>\n

The HIV positive person had an undetectable viral load to be included in these results – but this could be for only one month rather than six months. This link has more information on the PARTNER results
\nhttps:\/\/i-base.info\/qa-on-the-partner-study<\/a><\/p>\n

A\u00a0more detailed explanation on viral load and the risk of transmission\u00a0is in this section of the i-Base\u00a0guide on HIV transmission.
\nhttps:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/viral-load<\/a><\/p>\n

This answer was last updated in May 2021 from a question first posted on 26 January 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My boyfriend has HIV but he says he says he is undetectable.<\/p>\n

Is it okay to have sex without a condom or do we need to use them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783","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=5783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25105,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5783\/revisions\/25105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}