As HIV RNA tests become ever more capable of detecting minute quantities of the virus, health care providers and laboratories should be more mindful of how viral load results can be misinterpreted in the era of ‘Undetectable equals Untransmittable’ (U=U). Although HIV is not passed on through sex with a viral load below 200 copies/ml, people living with HIV may receive lab reports showing that their result as, for example, “HIV-1 RNA detected, 35 copies/ml” and be confused about whether U=U applies to them, argue Maria Rodriguez and colleagues at the University of Miami in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
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