{"id":90,"date":"2006-03-03T13:19:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T12:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=90"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:08","slug":"why-is-important-to-get-my-viral-load-undetectable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/90","title":{"rendered":"Why is important to get my viral load undetectable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who get their viral load to less than 50 copies\/mL, AND who        continue to take every dose at the right time, will be able to use the same        treatment for many years &#8211; perhaps 10-20 years. If your viral load stays        detectable when using HIV drugs then you are very likely to develop resistance        to those drugs and they will only last for a short time &#8211; perhaps only a        few months.<\/p>\n<p>This is why one of the main goals when starting treatment is to get viral        load to below 50 copies\/mL.<\/p>\n<p>(Adapted from a question from the i-Base Q&amp;A pages of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaneyetrust.org.uk\/\">African Eye<\/a> a new treatment publication for African communities affected by HIV who are living in the UK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people who get their viral load to less than 50 copies\/mL, AND who continue to take every dose at the right time, will be able to use the same treatment for many years &#8211; perhaps 10-20 years. If your &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-resistance","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}