Question
What will happen to me if my boyfriend is taking Acriptega and I don’t?
4 January 2023. Related: All topics, Resistance, Sero different couples, Starting treatment.
What will happen to me if my boyfriend is taking Acriptega and I don’t?
Answer
Hi, how are you doing?
Are you HIV positive or negative?
If you are positive, why are you not wanting to take ARVs? If you are not taking treatment and have sex with your boyfriend, there is no risk of resistance for your boyfriend to this medication. Though your own HIV will not be treated.
If you are HIV negative and your boyfriend is taking Acriptega, this means that risk of transmission can be reduced and ultimately prevented. When viral load is suppressed by medication to below 200, HIV cannot be transmitted by sex. This is explained by U=U.
Josh.
Hi Tebogo, thanks – good question. Please don’t worry. It is great you are undetectable and that your girlfriend is also now starting treatment. This is not a risk to you but if you are worried you could use a condom for the next month or two. So long as your girlfriend is good at remembering to take her meds, she is also likely to be undetectable soon.
I am undetected and my girlfriend has started the ARV yesterday. Can she reinfect me?