Sentences with phrase «viral load as»

Having reviewed all of the updated medical and scientific evidence, the Ontario government has decided that the criminal law should not apply to individuals living with HIV who have engaged in sexual activity without disclosing their status as long as they have maintained a suppressed viral load as the «realistic possibility of transmission test» is not met in these circumstances.

But the authors note that frequent exposure to small viral loads as a result of social contact among the hyenas might lead to a high degree of immunity

Not exact matches

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.

As a result, and following extensive consultation, the British HIV Association recognized in their 2011 updated Position Paper that an HIV - positive woman already receiving triple ART, with a repeated undetectable viral load at delivery may, after careful consideration, choose to exclusively breastfeed for the first 6 months of her baby's life and continue breastfeeding along side the appropriate introduction of solids during by the 6 - 24 month period.

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).

After some time on treatment, the viral load becomes undetectable and screening test results appear as negative.

The team found that the median initial viral load of women was almost five times lower than that of men as they progressed to AIDS.

«But these data confirm that the initial viral load is much lower in women than in men and consequently not as predictive for women.»

«Despite early differences in viral load among men and women, as time went on, both men and women had a similar risk of developing AIDS,» says Timothy Sterling, assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, which participated in the study.

In a study published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Dr. Sean B. Rourke found that in 2011, 87.3 per cent of people in the Ontario study were receiving care (defined as having had one viral load test measuring amount of HIV virus in the blood in the previous year), 77 per cent were on antiretroviral treatment and 76 per cent had a suppressed viral load.

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).

Patients who had a higher Ebola viral load when diagnosed with the diseases had a higher rate of eye inflammation and new vision problems, said Dr. Mishra, who spent five months working as a World Health Organization clinical consultant for the Ebola response in Sierra Leone.

As with HIV, when Ebola progresses, a patient's viral loads inch upward and that boosts the chance of disease transmission via contact with bodily fluids.

Patients could be eligible for a gift card every three months if they maintained viral suppression (defined as having an undetectable viral load).

Kobinger said he had no idea whether the antibodies had any effect on viral load in these patients, as they were given the experimental ZMapp on a «compassionate use» basis.

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In our laboratory we had the idea of localizing on tumor cells, with specific monoclonal antibodies, molecules, such as Major Histocompatibility Complexe (MHC), loaded with viral peptides, which can activate the T lymphocytes to attack the target tumor cells.

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As it's usually defined now, to have an undetectable viral load means there are fewer than 20 copies of the virus in one milliliter of blood.

And, Laurence added, there is some evidence that having an additional viral infection — even something as seemingly innocuous as the flu — may increase the risk of transmission, even in those individuals with an undetectable viral load.

Effective HIV medications, genotyping, and routine viral load surveillance have enabled primary care physicians to manage as outpatients those who were once complex inpatient cases treated by infectious disease specialists.

Not the poor sap who was driving, but his insurance company, Aviva, who have got loads of free publicity as the news went viral.

But if this is as we suspect actually some new breed of viral marketing, then congrats to Nintendo for drumming up loads of incredulous press coverage.