CDC defines viral suppression as less than 200 copies/mL, and an "undetectable" viral load as less than 20 copies/mL (below the limit of detection of available assays for HIV-1).

The report also showed that, between 2015 and 2022, the number of persons with HIV who received a viral load test annually increased 605%, from approximately 2.1 million to approximately 14.8 million.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has announced that HIV-positive parents can chestfeed their children if their HIV viral load has reached undetectable levels.

While viral load suppression rates have reached 95%, rates continue to lag in people who are pregnant and breastfeeding, children, teens, and those living in prison, according to the report.

A total of 97.2% of the participants with HIV and viral load results after 12 months were virally suppressed, with 96.7% of the alcohol reduction incentive group and 97.6% of the no alcohol ...

Around 32,100 Americans were newly infected by HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — in 2021, the CDC estimated, dropping 12% from about 36,500 infections in 2017.

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This is designed to coerce healthy asymptomatic HIV positives onto expensive drug cocktails - yet the science behind the CDC-imposed policy of universal "viral load suppression" was never honestly ...

People with HIV are more likely to have completed a primary COVID vaccine series plus a booster before their reinfection -- 31.8% versus 27% for those without HIV.

In 2019, the US CDC supported Nigeria in launching the U=U campaign in the country, aimed at increasing awareness about the benefits of adherence, sustained viral suppression and driving home the ...