The fight against HIV is a battle that affects millions of lives around the world. Understanding viral loads plays a crucial ...

HIV cannot be passed on during sex. This is what is meant by the slogan 'Undetectable equals Untransmittable' ('U=U'). Having an undetectable viral load means that there is not enough of the virus in ...

The decrease in CD4 cells during HIV infection seems to be driven by immune activation, which does not always correlate with viral load. Experienced clinicians are all too familiar with the ...

It’s important for all people with HIV to have regular blood tests. The two most important blood tests are for CD4 and viral load. CD4 and viral load test results give essential information about the ...

If your rash is a result of the infection itself, HIV medications can help your skin by restoring your immune system and reducing your viral load. However, if the rash turns out to be caused by ...

Next, new viral RNA is synthesized followed by production of viral proteins. Those will then mature into infectious HIV/SIV. This image may only be used with appropriate caption and credit.

Since HIV viral-load testing is the best tool to enable early detection of therapeutic failure, unrecognized virological failure along with selection and accumulation of drug resistance have been ...

However, the combination of Merck's approved doravirine and investigational islatravir didn't prove superiority over Gilead's ...