What Does Being HIV Undetectable Mean for You?

"Although it's not a cure for HIV, me reaching an undetectable viral load took the weight of living with HIV off me. I know that I can live a long, healthy life with HIV."
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TRANSCRIPT:
Marissa: I had heard about undetectable - wasn’t really sure what it meant until about a year into my diagnosis.
Aurelio: When you’re HIV undetectable that means the virus is so low that the lab can’t detect it, and you can’t transmit it to your partner.
Marnina: As long as you’re staying in touch with your healthcare provider, and taking your medicine every day as prescribed, you can reach an undetectable viral load.
Kneeshe: When I go and get my labs they let me know that I’m still undetectable and that my CD4 count is doing well.
Marissa: CD4 are the helper cells, your white blood cells, that are in your body that help fight off any kind of infections.
Raul: Being undetectable makes me a little more confident about sharing my status.
Marnina: Although it’s not a cure for HIV, me reaching an undetectable viral load took the weight of living with HIV kind of off of me, and it let me know that I won’t transmit to my partner, that I can live a long healthy life with HIV.

[@MimiFisher]

Being undetectable for me means being able to raise my family without being worried about my health

[@janedelman2351]

How is being undetectable better for one's body and organs

[@janedelman2351]

If it is at all

[@AS-nd4zb]

what abt others virus such as cmv EBV and herpes who people don't talk abt that is there any way to control and not transfer to others??

[@donaldjones318]

It honestly just depends on your body some ppl have had herpes for 30 years and haven’t transmitted to they partner yet

[@ashimkumarpaul5683]

Viral load results Target Not Determined (TND) means? Thank you in advance

[@Zai..675]

Log 10value 3.51mens bro

[@Zai..675]

Log 10 value 3.51 means

[@usernotfound2471]

Is anybody here undetectable and dating a negative hiv partner?

[@jamalahmabjamalahmab6647]

Ys i am dating a HIV negative partner he also a good doctor i am a gay

[@ahou_singson]

Did u still take medicine after undetectable

[@khumoisaac3341]

Does it really work that you guys can do it with out condoms and he comes out negative still?