Be under the care of the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the Lyon university Hopsital (Hospices Civils de Lyon);
Have been receiving continuous ART for at least 5 full years;
Have a consistently undetectable plasma HIV viral load whilst on ART;
Have experienced no more than two isolated episodes of virological rebound ('blips') ≥ 100 copies/mL;
Have usable biological samples for the planned analyses and/or agree to the collection of samples required for the research;
Have received written and verbal information about the research;
Have signed the written consent form prior to any research-specific procedures.
You may not be if
Patients who have taken part in an interventional therapeutic trial specifically targeting an HIV cure strategy likely to have a lasting effect on the immunological or virological parameters under investigation;
Patients who have experienced more than two episodes of virological rebound ≥ 100 copies/mL whilst on ART;
Pregnant women, women in labour or breastfeeding women;
Persons deprived of their liberty by judicial or administrative order;
Persons subject to a legal protection order;
Adults subject to a legal protection measure (guardianship, curatorship);
Persons admitted to a health or social care facility for purposes other than research;
Persons receiving psychiatric care;
Persons who have expressed their objection to participating in the research or to the use of their data and biological samples.
