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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federally funded clinical trial suggests knowing HIV viral load (number of HIV particles in the body) doesn’t improve the number of patients seeking treatment for active HIV infection or preventive ...

Viral load monitoring has become the cornerstone of contemporary HIV care, providing a direct measure of antiretroviral therapy (ART) efficacy by quantifying plasma HIV RNA. Regular assessment of ...

Most women living with HIV achieved an immunologic response after 2 years of initiating antiretroviral therapy. A higher baseline HIV viral load increased the odds of an immunologic response in women ...

Colorized transmission electron micrograph of multiple HIV-1 virus particles (green) budding from a cell projection from an H9 cell (burgundy). Image captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility ...

A CD4+ count below 200 cells/μL, advanced age at antiretroviral therapy initiation, and protease inhibitor use were associated with low-level viremia and increased risk for virologic failure among ...

Nearly 400,000 people living with HIV in Kenya did not receive a viral load test in the final quarter of 2025, new data shows, a gap that could allow undetected treatment failures to silently ...

Sample blood collection tube with HIV test label on HIV infection screening test form. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Room's Studio) A non-reactive HIV test result generally means good news – you ...