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Welcome to the Glossary of Commonly Used HIV/AIDS Terms! This feature provides a number of uses. Learn basic definitions, brush up on medical terms or provider lingo, or use the glossary as a reference guide in understanding the many acronyms found in the HIV/AIDS language. Whatever your needs, use the glossary to meet them.
Just click a letter below to see the terms listed.
| Viral Load | |
In relation to HIV, the quantity of HIV RNA in the blood. Viral load is used as a predictor of disease progression. Viral load test results are expressed as the number of copies per milliliter of blood plasma. | |
| Viremia | |
The presence of virus in blood or blood plasma. Plasma viremia is a quantitative measurement of HIV levels similar to viral load but is accomplished by seeing how much of a patient's plasma is required to spark an HIV infection in a laboratory cell culture. | |