Group Stress Management Helps Reduce HIV Viral Load

“That suggests that if you improve mood state, you will improve cortisol, and you will improve immune function, which relates to improvements in viral load,” he said. The virology effect of the behavioral intervention was statistically significant, and Dr. Goodkin suggested that “it may ever be clinically significant, but we need to look at the latter effect on viral load seen in a subgroup over the long term in larger study groups.”