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by VeryAnonymous 3194 days ago
Not a professional, but my wife has HIV (and I don't), so I have a personal interest in the subject.

> How many people taking retrovirals have undetectable levels of HIV?

According to my wife's doctor, most of them. And if that changes, they attempt to adjust treatment to return to that state.

BTW, undetectable appears to mean 20 copies of viral DNA per ml of blood.

> Are those people using condoms?

Well, we were, for many years. But we wanted children, and so after her doctor actually encouraged us we conceived them the old-fashioned way. I really, really enjoyed sex without a condom after so many years, I must say.

Now we have all the children we want, and we ought to go back to condoms, but I find myself wondering about the risk vs. reward. I suppose we'll go back to condoms, but I yearn to forgo them -- it's just less intimate. I wonder how other couples feel.

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There was a study a few days ago that found out that below threshold viral load means that the patient isn't infectious anymore.

https://www.intomore.com/impact/cdc-acknowledges-that-undete...

Don't take my word for it though, would check with doctors.