Researchers found point-of-care viral load (POC VL) tests have high sensitivity and specificity for detection of viral loads of at least 1000 copies/mL. A recent review in Cochrane Database of ...

There are around fifteen drops in a milliliter of blood. The viral load of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individual could be anywhere from only a few copies to as many as 500,000 ...

Without ART, people living with HIV can have a viral load of 30,000 to more than 500,000 copies/mL, depending on the stage of infection. While using lab-based plasma sample methods provides the most ...

February 25, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — Decreases in community viral load — a mathematical measure of the amount of virus in a particular population — was associated with a decrease in the ...

Next-day HIV viral load testing results do not significantly improve linkage to treatment or prevention care for adults at risk for acquisition or people with HIV not receiving daily antiretroviral ...

A milliliter of blood contains about 15 individual drops. For a person with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), each drop of blood could contain anywhere from fewer than 20 copies of the virus to more ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources, there are approximately 1.2 million people living with HIV in the United States, and another 1.2 to 2.2 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A milliliter of blood contains about 15 individual drops. For a person with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), each drop of blood could contain anywhere from fewer than 20 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sexually transmitted infections increased among HIV-infected men who have sex with men between 2014 and 2019, ...

Ascertainment of vital status was good in this close-knit rural West African community, with a total loss to follow up of only 6.5%. However, follow up sampling for laboratory tests was less ...