{"id":10060,"date":"2014-08-28T14:10:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10060"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:46","slug":"can-i-use-my-cd4-count-to-tell-how-long-ive-been-infected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10060","title":{"rendered":"Can i use my CD4 count to tell how long i&#8217;ve been infected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry to hear about your diagnosis<\/p>\n<p>CD4 counts and how fast or slow they change can vary widely from person to person. For this reason you can&#8217;t use it to tell how long someone has been infected.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK you can take a test called RITA that can tell you if you have been infected in the last 6 months. You can ask your doctor or clinic if it is available there.<\/p>\n<p>You can find a more detailed answer to a similar question about <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/25\">finding out when you were infected<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/if-you-have-just-found-out-you-are-hiv-positive\/\">information about being newly diagnosed<\/a> online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently found out i am HIV positive. Can i use my CD4 count to tell how long i have been infected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24823,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions\/24823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}