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A recent study of people on antiretrovirals showed the disconnect between a person’s viral load and their view of their likelihood of transmitting HIV.
52% of the HIV-positive people in the study thought they were highly or somewhat infectious after 3 years of treatment.
90% were wrong — they were actually undetectable, meaning their risk of transmission was actually
close to zero.
Only 10% still had detectable viral loads and were infectious.
But, at the beginning of the 3-year study…
16% thought they had low (or no) risk of transmitting HIV.
100% of those people were wrong.
