People with undetectable or very low HIV levels have zero or “almost zero” risk of transmitting the virus sexually if they are taking suppression medication, according to new guidelines from the WHO.
The announcement was made concurrently with the publication over the weekend of definitive new research in. The findings were presented virtually at the 12th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science taking place in Brisbane, Australia.
The WHO estimates that 76% of the 39 million people worldwide living with HIV take antiretroviral therapy .stated. “People living with HIV who are diagnosed and treated early, and take their medication as prescribed, can expect to have the same health and life expectancy as their HIV-negative counterparts.”study showed that people who have a viral load of less than 1,000 copies per milliliter of blood have a tiny chance of transmitting the virus to sexual partners.
People living with HIV who do not take ART can have viral loads ranging from 30,000 to more than 500,000 copies per milliliter, according aThe new findings do not apply to the transmission of HIV from mother to child, including during pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. “The ultimate goal of antiretroviral therapy for people living with HIV is to maintain undetectable viral loads, which will improve their own health and prevent transmission to their sexual partners and children,” said researcher Lara Vojnov, PhD, diagnostics advisor to the WHO Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programmes, in a statement. “But these new findings are also significant as they indicate that the risk of sexual transmission of HIV at low viral loads is almost zero.
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