An undetectable viral load means that the level of HIV in your blood is below the threshold needed for detection by this test.<\/p>\n
A viral load test is a measurement of the amount of HIV in your body.\u00a0 The measurement is given in the number of copies in milliliter (copies\/mL).<\/p>\n
If you are on treatment, then your viral load should go down to undetectable level (less than 50 copies\/mL).\u00a0 Once your viral load goes down, then slowly your CD4 count will increase, although not to the level before infection.<\/p>\n
Since your viral load has reduced from 82 to 42, this is a good indication that your treatment is working for you.\u00a0 It is also possible for your viral load can go down further too.<\/p>\n
Viral load technology has progressed during the last 30 years of HIV history.\u00a0 The tests have been greatly improved and tests used for research are even more sensitive – down to 5 or even 1 copy\/mL.<\/p>\n
All hospitals in the UK now routinely use viral load tests that measure down to 20, 40 or 50 copies\/mL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is an undetectable viral load? I had thought it was less than 50 but when I got my results today mine was 42 (down from 82 last time). Can labs measure almost any level of virus these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}