{"id":10323,"date":"2014-10-22T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10323"},"modified":"2024-09-05T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T14:42:53","slug":"are-there-any-injectable-arvs-i-dont-want-to-have-to-swallow-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10323","title":{"rendered":"Are there any injectable ARVs? I don’t want to have to swallow pills."},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

I am sorry to hear about your diagnosis.<\/p>\n

There are currently no ARV injections. There are some in development but these will not be available for a while.<\/p>\n

There are pill combinations available now where you only need to take one a pill a day. Sometimes on the UK if someone has trouble swallowing pills they are given lower dose pills that are smaller. These are usually used for children. There would be more pills this way though.<\/p>\n

In South Africa it is recommended that you start treatment when your CD4 has fallen to 350. Your doctor has started talking about treatment because you are close to that. You do not have to rush into anything though, you have time to prepare yourself to start treatment. You can also take time to discuss your treatment options with your doctor.<\/p>\n

You can find information about being newly diagnosed <\/a>on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi I a young lady and i just found out that I’m HIV positive. My CD4 count is 368 at the moment. My doctor recommended that I start treatment as soon as possible so I would like to know if there are any ARVs on injections because I just can’t swallow pills everyday <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,57,28,49,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-injectable-art","category-newly-diagnosed","category-south-africa","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323","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=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24054,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions\/24054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}