or is there a different specific type of treatment that some take to be undetectable and untransmittable?
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So, virus like HIV use your cells to reproduce and create more virus, destroying your cells while doing it, and that is what kills you. You can’t kill 100% of the HIV virus when the person is already sick, but you can take medication so that the conditions are bad for HIV, and they stop reproducing. That’s when it becomes undetectable, you can’t “see” any virus anymore in the blood tests.So, to know if you’re untransmittable, you need to do tests to see how many virus is in your blood. After a time of taking medication, it becomes undetectable. But is only after 6 months of continued tests showing undetectable that someone is considered untransmittable.
So there isn’t ANY treatment that makes HIV automatically undetectable, but almost all treatments now reach that stage with time.
No they are only undetectable when they’re viral load get the number of virus copies under 200 per milliliter of blood. Then yes it is I transmittable after that. it depends how far along the virus is it could take time for them to befome untransmittable.Theres also a difference between having HIV, AIDS, and full blown AIDS.
First, different medicines work better for different people. So, even if you are on meds, you might need to tweak the amount you are taking.
Second, undetectable basically means that the virus is under control, as detailed in the other comments. It’s a process, that requires steady doses of medication and time, to achieve.
Not sure what you mean by “automatic.” There’s not magical guarantee that if you take antiretrovirals you will be undetectable, but that’s the goal, and for most people, some combination of drugs will achieve that.
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