{"id":10602,"date":"2015-06-24T13:35:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10602"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T13:50:07","slug":"is-kissing-a-risk-for-ks-does-undetectable-mean-hiv-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10602","title":{"rendered":"Is kissing a risk for KS? Does undetectable mean HIV negative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>You are not at risk of catching\u00a0Kaposi\u2019s Sarcoma (KS)\u00a0from kissing. Although KS is linked to a virus called HHV-8 that can be transmitted by kissing, you are already likely to have had this virus for many years and it is likely to harmless to you.<\/p>\n<p>The KS virus is already very common in adults but it\u00a0only leads to KS in some HIV positive people, becasue their immune system is weaker<\/p>\n<p>In people who are HIV negative, the KS-virus does not develop into KS.<\/p>\n<p>On your second question, having an undetectable viral load is not the same as being HIV negative.<\/p>\n<p>Your boyfriend is still HIV positive and he still has HIV, but just at such low levels that standard tests are not able to find it.<\/p>\n<div>As long as viral load stays this low, this will dramatically reduce the risk that you might catch HIV from your boyfriend.<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello<\/p>\n<p>My boyfriend who is hiv+ told me he checked and found out hiv was not detected. His been on ARVs for two years. Does that mean he is now HIV negative?<\/p>\n<p> He also has kaposi sarcoma and is on chemotherapy. Is it okay to kiss him because I read that kaposi sarcoma can be transmitted through saliva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-opportunistic-infections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602","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=10602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}