{"id":101,"date":"2007-04-26T10:35:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T09:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=101"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:15:42","slug":"how-can-i-help-my-friend-who-has-just-tested-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/101","title":{"rendered":"How can I help my friend who has just tested HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your friend told your sister to keep this confidential, then you have to respect this, and give your friend time to decide to tell you herself, in her own time.<\/p>\n<p>Even though HIV treatment should mean someone diagnosed today have a good chance of leading a long health life, getting the HIV-positive result is still scary and takes time to come to terms with.<\/p>\n<p>It is very good that she has confided in your sister, so she has some support and is not going through this on here own.<\/p>\n<p>Giving your friend space and time to do this is probably the best way to help her.<\/p>\n<p>You could use this time to find out more information about HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Information on treatment is covered in the i-Base <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/\">Introduction to Combination Therapy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another site with good general information is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avert.org\">Avert<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please let us know if you have other questions we can help with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, thank you for your website and your efforts.<\/p>\n<p>I just found out that my friend is HIV positive, my sister told me, but wanted me to keep it secret.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep it secret but I want to help her. How can I do that without her knowing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}