{"id":6083,"date":"2021-06-01T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/?page_id=6083"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:40:59","slug":"how-can-my-partner-test-positive-and-i-test-negative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/how-can-my-partner-test-positive-and-i-test-negative","title":{"rendered":"How can one partner test positive and one test negative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6095 alignright\" title=\"Cartoon 3 lucky\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/files\/2011\/12\/Cartoon-3-lucky.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"317\" \/><\/strong>Q: How can one\u00a0partner test positive and the other\u00a0test negative?<\/h2>\n<p>A: It is quite common for one partner to test positive and the other negative, even if they have been having sex without condoms.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly this is explained by luck and the role of other risk factors. Over time, most people will catch HIV if they continue to be at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Even though you have been exposed and not infected, you can still catch HIV in the future.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now you know your partners HIV status you can still stay together and have sex safely.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>If your partner has an undetectable viral load on treatment, there is zero risk, even without condoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The PARTNER study showed this for both vaginal and anal sex and in gay and straight couples.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/prep\">use PrEP<\/a> to reduce the risk to close to zero. This is a great way to protect your health.<\/p>\n<p>You can also stay safe and prevent infection by using condoms when having sex and not sharing needles or blood products with your partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: How can one\u00a0partner test positive and the other\u00a0test negative? A: It is quite common for one partner to test positive and the other negative, even if they have been having sex without condoms. Mostly this is explained by luck &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5467,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6083","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6083\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}