From a December 2004 Poz magazine article...

Detectable Rebels

by Tim Murphy

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Meanwhile, over in Phoenix, Chris Daley, 51, a computer consultant diagnosed with HIV in 1989, boasts stable CD4s and viral load between 1,000 and 3,000 on what many would call a sub-optimal regimen of Viracept (nelfinavir) and Zerit (d4T). "I'd rather have the side effects I know than those I don't," he says. "We've left well enough alone."

Theriot, Varner and Daley represent a subpopulation of American HIVers who get little play in the official research literature -- not to mention big pharma's glossy ads featuring sunny types touting their undetectability -- and until recently could be easily dismissed as detectable daredevils. But four studies published in recent months have challenged the presumed dangers of undetectability. As docs and people with HIV square off over the new research, it's time to ask whether Theriot, Varner and Daley are courting disaster -- or whether they are pillars of sanity in a world gone cuckoo for undetectability.

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The full article can be found here.