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Originally Posted by Bladewire
I don't buy into the "undetectable" HIV+ hype.
It's been proven that HIV levels while taking these meds go up and down sometimes on a daily basis depending on when you take them if you take them with food if you have a cold etc.
So one day you can be undetectable or the next day you can be detectable and have more of the virus in you.
Not to mention the side effects of these medications they can have severe impact on bone loss and liver and kidney damage, leading to liver and kidney failure.
Having a virus and being undetectable is still you having a virus that's possible to spread.
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The whole point is non-transmission of the virus. If all people with HIV take the Meds there will be no new cases. And over time eradicate HIV/AIDS.
"There needs to be a much better understanding of how HIV is and isn't transmitted, and the fact that treatment stops transmission, in the NHS and beyond. We think this is vital to addressing stigma."
Previous research has shown zero risk for heterosexual couples of passing on the virus, when one person is taking HIV treatment, prompting UNAIDS to launch its
undetectable = untransmittable campaign.
Dr Ford Hickson, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
said the study confirmed that if people suppress their HIV with antiretroviral therapy, they "cannot pass their virus to other people during sex, whatever kind of sex they have".
In the study, the men with HIV had been taking antiretroviral therapy for an average of four years before it began, making the virus undetectable - defined as fewer than 200 copies per ml of blood.
Most people reach this level after taking daily HIV treatment for six months.
In the UK, 98% of people diagnosed with HIV are receiving treatment - and 97% of those have an undetectable level of the virus - meaning they are unable to pass on the infection.