{"id":10857,"date":"2015-10-14T16:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T16:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10857"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:11","slug":"my-girlfriend-is-positive-how-can-we-have-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10857","title":{"rendered":"My girlfriend is positive, how can we have a baby?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great you are thinking about having children.<\/p>\n<p>Many couples like yours, with one positive and one negative partner, safely have HIV negative children. This is done using HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>If she is not already on treatment she would start. After a couple of months her viral load will be undetectable. This means the risk of transmission is extremely low &#8211; close to zero. You can then have sex without a condom and conceive that way.<\/p>\n<p>She would carry on taking her meds and this would protect the child while she is pregnant and during childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>You can find lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\">information about HIV and having children<\/a>\u00a0in our online guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a circumcised man and my girlfriend is HIV positive, we want a baby. How can we do this? I don&#8217;t know about her viral load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857","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=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24959,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions\/24959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}