{"id":10963,"date":"2015-12-18T16:11:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T16:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10963"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:10","slug":"i-moved-and-lost-my-insurance-i-cant-afford-meds-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10963","title":{"rendered":"I moved and lost my insurance, i can&#8217;t afford meds now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sorry you are having such a challenging time. It is important that you get back on treatment if you can. Thousands of people with HIV access their meds using Medicaid in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately as soon as you stopped taking treatment your viral load will have started to go up. It will usually become detectable within the first 2-4 weeks. This means that \u00a0unless you use condoms, your wife will be already be at risk . It is important that now you are not on meds that you should talk about this with your wife. If you have already been having sex without condoms she should get a test.<\/p>\n<p>You should look for a public health clinic in your area. They may be able to provide monitoring and support. I only ask because the lower it was the greater your risks may be from stopping, this is particularly true if you started treatment with a CD4 under 200.<\/p>\n<p>ADAP or the AIDS Drugs Assistance Programme . This an important programme for accessing HIV treatment in the US. You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridahealth.gov\/diseases-and-conditions\/aids\/adap\/ \">Florida specific ADAP information<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p>GMHC is also an organisation that may be able to link you to some services. You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmhc.org\/about-us\/contact-us\">GMHC&#8217;s contact details<\/a>\u00a0online.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am 31 years old. I was diagnosed HIV+ when I was 27. I have been taking Atripla since I was diagnosed in 2011. Recently I moved and my insurance got cancelled. I ran out of my medication. I can&#8217;t afford to get more. How long can i not take it before I can pass it on to my wife? I was undectable and my CD4 is 410, i&#8217;m writing from Florida. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,9,23,36,55,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples","category-stopping-treatment","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963","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=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21471,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions\/21471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}