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What is the risk of getting hiv through blood transfusion, if hiv infected patient have undetectable viral load?
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There is no data on this. Risk through sexual contact is almost zero from observational studies if the source is having undetectable viral load. But there is definite transmission risk through blood transfusion
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there is a more than 90 percantage chance of getting hiv through blood transfusion either he had undetectable viral load or not because these viruses are in window period so we can't detect viral load
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if u know that they had transfused hiv infected blood then within 72 hours or i say within 24 hours you take prophylaxis medication then there is more than 99 percantage that you will not get infection
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