How To Decrease Viral Load

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Decreasing viral load AND decreasing T-cells

Dear Dr. Holodniy,Last December I was diagnosed with AIDS: Viral load 466,000 and CD4s at 43. My viral load is now undetectable (<50) but my CD4s, which had increased to the 120's had now dropped on my last 2 tests to 96 and 86...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

You have what is now being called a discordant response, when the T cells and viral load don't go in the directions they are supposed. The other scenario affecting people is no reduction in viral load, despite increases in T cells by 20o or... Read more »

CD4 count decrease and viral load decrease

Iam currently on second line Hiv treatment and taking a combination Truvada and Aluvia.After... Read more »

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Decreasing t-cells, decreasing viral load

My husband's blood work just came back and in 7 months, his viral load dropped from 23,700... Read more »

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Personalized Vaccine Helps Decrease HIV Patients' Viral Load, Study Says

"Twenty-four AIDS patients took part in a clinical trial [of a vaccine] carried out by doctors at Barcelona's Hospital Clinic and after 24 weeks the majority had shown a 'significant' decrease in their viral load, the hospital said" on Tuesday,... Read more »

FAQs About HIV Viral Load Tests

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Two New Classes of Drugs Found to Control Viral Loads Among HIV-Positive People Who Have Developed Drug Resistance, Studies Say

Two new classes of antiretroviral drugs, called CCR5 and integrase inhibitors, have been found to control the viral loads of HIV-positive people who have developed drug resistance, according to studies presented Tuesday at the 14th Annual Conference... Read more »

HIV Viral Load

The development and recent licensure by the FDA of new molecular techniquesdesigned to detect circulating virion-associated HIV RNA in plasma has enabledinvestigators to study the viral dynamics and pathogenesis of HIV and hasallowed clinicians to... Read more »

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The Failure of Viral Load Tests

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

The Failure of Viral Load Tests
JAMA Study Shakes AIDS Science, Angers HIV Advocates

A nationwide team of orthodox AIDS researchers led by doctors Benigno Rodriguez and Michael Lederman of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland are disputing the... Read more »

CD4, 320 , Viral load 26000, what to do??????

Posted by david73, 8 Replies

Hi ,I'm a 36 yr old ,new to this site and new to this world of hiv.
I have a Dr . that specializes in hiv, I was diagnosed 5 mos ago.and my last blood test was done last week and results are in today ...... cd4 320, viral load 26000. this is the 4... Read more »

CD4 668 - Viral Load 227567 ? about viral load

Posted by Courtkidx, 1 Reply

I just got these results via phone and im just curious if anyone can tell me if I should be worried about my semi high viral load? I know my cd4 count is good. I am newly diagnosed as of dec. 30, 2009. Any info would be appreciated. Read more »

VL decreasing w/out meds

Posted by mscaramelle, 1 Reply

Hi All....I was diagnosed as HIV+ in Feb of this year. My first test in April showed VL of 1100, 1 month later - 2600, so 6 months later in November, I expected to see the numbers to keep doubling or at least increasing...however, my VL is 570. I... Read more »

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