{"id":9814,"date":"2014-03-11T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T09:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9814"},"modified":"2014-03-11T09:12:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T09:12:48","slug":"why-is-my-viral-load-undetectable-without-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9814","title":{"rendered":"Why is my viral load undetectable without treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your email. It is very unusual to have an undetectable viral load without treatment, but a\u00a0very small proportion of HIV positive people, known as elite controllers, have undetectable viral loads less than 50 copies\/mL for years without treatment. This is very rare and only about 1-in-300 HIV positive people are elite controllers.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to continue to have your viral load monitored, and also to check your CD4 count. The CD4 count measures how strong your immune system is- have you had this test done?<\/p>\n<p>If your CD4 count is high, and your viral load remains undetectable it is unlikely you will need to take ARVs at this time, but it is important to keep being monitored for any changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello I tested positive twice and both times my viral load is undetectable before starting any ARVs. <\/p>\n<p>Is that possible? And what does that mean? <\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9814","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\/9814","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}