are HIV+ people who are under treatment and take their medication, automatically undetectable and untransmittable?

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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.