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 ...

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 ...

A single laboratory-based HIV viral load test used by U.S. clinicians who provide people with long-acting, injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) did not reliably detect ...

Faith, 23, is on the verge of despair after being unable to check her HIV viral load for the second time this year. “Since they drew blood to test the viral load in January, the next time I was to be ...

While using lab-based plasma sample methods provides the most sensitive viral load test results, such tests are not feasible in many parts of the world. However, the new findings support the greater ...

Over the last 15 years, many African nations have made major strides towards enabling millions of HIV-positive people to access HIV antiretroviral therapy. This has helped to treat individual patients ...

HIV-1 viral load monitoring is central to the effective management and treatment of HIV infection. Accurate quantification of viral RNA in plasma not only guides antiretroviral therapy but also offers ...

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Nevertheless the HIV programme is still successfully treating millions of people and South Africa is far better off than ...

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