There are around fifteen drops in a milliliter of blood. The viral load of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individual could be anywhere from only a few copies to as many as 500,000 ...

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 ...

Researchers found point-of-care viral load (POC VL) tests have high sensitivity and specificity for detection of viral loads of at least 1000 copies/mL. A recent review in Cochrane Database of ...

A milliliter of blood contains about 15 individual drops. For a person with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), each drop of blood could contain anywhere from fewer than 20 copies of the virus to more ...

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 ...

Over the last 15 years, many African nations have made major strides towards enabling millions of HIV-positive people to access HIV antiretroviral therapy. This has helped to treat individual patients ...

PLEASANTON, Calif., Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today the launch of a new Global Access Program for HIV viral load testing, created in partnership with ...

Many countries in resource-limited settings have high HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and/or sexually transmitted infection (STI) burdens. In 2010, WHO first recommended the use of the Xpert ...

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 ...

Prof. Wolfgang Preiser has received funding directly and indirectly from SA MRC, NRF, PRF, DFG, the Wellcome Trust and other research funding organisations. Gert van Zyl previously received funding ...

The number of viral load tests is significantly lower than expected reports Nathan Geffen and Marcus Low of GroundUp News.