Johnsell50 – you are that nurse guy, isn’t it?From the above:
For those who are still unsure, an HIV-positive person can achieve undetectable levels after undergoing antiretroviral therapy (ART). A level of a person’s HIV viral load is what causes them to be more or less likely to transmit the disease. An undetectable viral load reduces the likelihood of transmission by 96 percent. Once a person achieves an undetectable status, it is possible to remain at this level provided that the person is compliant with their ART medication.
To be honest there is still a lot of discussion about who is and who isn't infectious. Some scientists agree with the above and some say there is 0 chance of spreading the disease. Even in people with undetectable levels, and on ART, there can still be "Virus Spikes" in the body without any warning. This means going from possibly a 0% chance to some chance. Everyone makes their own choices.
Again nonsense! Hopefully you don’t work for an NGO, training other nurses.
From where and how did you get your numbers? (Conduction medical tests maybe, a patient under ART treatment, having 100 times unprotected sex? That would give you 4 new infections?)
It is correct:
If you undergo antiretroviral therapy (in my case one tablet per day/US$ 200 per month), the “Virus Spikes" (as Johnsell50 calls them, but these are not spikes like from mushrooms!) remain in your body. HIV has no sterilizing cure yet, as we all know. There has been only one patient declared cured through bone marrow transplant so far!
The virus remains latent or dormant in Memory T cells. These cells, or reservoirs, can be found in your brain, lymph nodes, medulla, etc. – but not in your body fluid like sperm, sweat or similar.
Only if one would stop taking his antiretroviral drugs, the latent virus could re-produce itself.
These medications are the same which are now widely used and recognized as vaccination (PREP) against HIV.
I am not denying here: You must use condoms!
And I don’t care what people and cowboys saying, but I can’t stand if someone, calling himself a nurse, gets the facts wrong!