Sentences with phrase «make viral loads»
The additional funds — only a fraction of the city's $ 78 billion budget — would be used to support programs to reduce the spread of HIV infection in local communities and provide people living with HIV with access to care, medications that make viral loads undetectable, and other treatment supports.
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At the clinic we were told that as long as we were on an FDC, the viral load goes down, making the chances of transmission very slim, provided you followed the guidelines of exclusive breastfeeding for six months, did not give your baby water and gave only medicines prescribed by a healthcare professional.
aTaking HIV medicine as prescribed can make a person's viral load very low — even so low that a test can't detect it (called an undetectable viral load).
By reducing viral loads in patients, antiretroviral drugs make transmission less likely.
Those other methods included condom use, seroadapive behaviors (such as taking different positions during intercourse to reduce transmission risk) and treatment as prevention (which could reduce the «viral load» and make it less likely to transfer).
«The viral loads in the saliva in general are low, but there are also anti-microbial components in saliva making that low level of virus even less infectious than it might be in another medium,» says Christina Newman, co-first author of the study with Dudley and also a scientist with the UW - Madison Zika Experimental Science Team.
«We were able to capture people with HIV infection before they had symptoms and before they had antibodies, which is how a diagnosis of HIV is usually made, and while their viral loads were actually very low,» said Dr. Merlin Robb, the study's principal investigator and the Deputy Director of MHRP.
Make sure that you see the doctor, get counseled and get treated so that you keep your viral load down.
My position makes me privy to the HIV status and viral - load test results of a couple hundred residents of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, and responsible for the safe, confidential reporting of that information to our funders, so they can track program efficacy and proper coordination.