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What Does UNDETECTABLE Mean?

 According to @aidsgov , the definition of UNDETECTABLE  means “ Having an “undetectable” viral load doesn’t mean that the virus is completely gone from your body, just that it is below what a lab test can find. You still have HIV and need to stay on ART to remain healthy.” The website also states “ As noted, the goal of ART is to reduce your viral load, ideally to an undetectable level. If your viral load goes down after starting ART, the treatment is working.Having an undetectable viral load greatly lowers your chance of transmitting the virus to your sexual and drug-using partners who are HIV-negative. However, even when your viral load is undetectable, HIV can still exist in semen, vaginal and rectal fluids, breast milk, and other parts of your body. For this reason, you should continue to take steps to prevent HIV transmission. For example:HIV may still be found in your genital fluids (semen or vaginal fluids). The viral load test only measures the amount of HIV in your blood. Although ART also lowers viral load in genital fluids, HIV can sometimes be present in your genital fluids even when it is undetectable in your blood.Your viral load may go up between tests. When this happens, you may be more likely to transmit HIV to your partner(s). Your viral load may go up without you knowing it because you may not feel any different.Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) can increase your viral load in your genital fluids. This means that if you are living with HIV and also have an STD, you may be able to transmit HIV to your partner(s) even if your viral load is undetectable.Researchers are studying how much you can lower your chances of transmitting HIV when your viral load is undetectable. One large multinational study indicates that ART that consistently suppresses HIV is highly effective at preventing sexual transmission of the virus in heterosexual couples where one person is HIV-infected and the other is not. In fact, that study found that ART reduces the risk of heterosexual HIV transmission by 93% or more if viral suppression is achieved and maintained. Researchers did not observe any HIV transmission during this study when the HIV-infected partner’s virus was stably suppressed by ART. If you are taking ART, follow your HIV care provider’s advice. Visit your HIV care provider regularly and always take your HIV meds as directed. This will give you the greatest chance of having an undetectable viral load. Taking other actions, like using a condom consistently and correctly, can lower your chances of transmitting HIV or contracting an STD even more. “

So what does this all mean, when it comes to having sex?  Well to begin, you still have HIV, and there is no way around that fact. So you can’t say that you aren’t HIV or POZ anymore, because you still have the virus in your system. So according to any medical professional, you are still HIV. But when it comes to being UNDETECTABLE, it just basically means that your chances of you infecting someone is at a lower risk than someone that doesn’t take their meds and isn’t compliant with their doctors. But there are still people out there that are still scared to death of when you mention anything having to do with being POZ, even it includes the word UNDETECTABLE.

There is a website out there called  http://www.haemosexual.com/ that wrote an article about being GAY and being HIV and also about being UNDETECABLE, I would recommend reading the article and maybe it will hit home, on how some of the gay community reacts when you mention anything about HIV and/or AIDS ... http://www.haemosexual.com/gay-men-time-educate-hiv-positive-undetectable-means/...

So I hope that this was a little informative?

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ABOUT THE BLOG

  This BLOG is about educating people about #hiv #aids and what it means to be #undetectable and of course about #PrEP. Now some of you may know about #HIV and/or #AIDS and maybe even #PrEP, but not some of you may not know what it means to be #undetectable and or when people say that they are #undetectable, what does it really mean and what’s the difference between being #undetectable and being #poz...

 This is my personal story, about being a #survivor and what my life has been like since found out about me being diagnosed.How the gay and straight world has treated me and what people say about me and sometime even behind my back, once they find out about me being #poz and being #undetecable.. Now I don’t claim to have any medical education about how #HIV and #AIDS works in the body and how each person is effected by the virus. But like, I said this is my story and if any of you happen to have any questions, don’t be shy or hesitate to ask me, and if I can’t answer your question, I will get a medical person to help me with your question.. I WILL DELETE AND BLOCK ANY COMMENTS OR VIDEOS THAT ARE HATEFUL, MEAN, DISRESPECTFUL OR THREATENING ME IN WAY SHAPE OR FORM, SO YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED AND THE COMMENTS, VIDEOS WILL BE REPORTED TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES.. 

This is BLOG is supposed to be an informative and educational blog, adn please respect it that way..