{"id":11526,"date":"2016-07-04T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:10","slug":"is-there-a-pil-my-hiv-negative-partner-can-take-to-not-catch-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11526","title":{"rendered":"Can my HIV negative partner take a pill to not catch HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question which I will answer in two parts.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, the pill you are asking about is called PrEP.<\/p>\n<p>All your questions should be answered in this new online guide:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/uk-guide-to-prep\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/UK-Guide-to-PrEP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If taken as prescribed, PrEP is close to 100% effective.<\/p>\n<p>However, a second point is that\u00a0you didn&#8217;t say whether you were taking HIV treatment (ART)?<\/p>\n<p>If yes, then if your viral load is undetectable, the risk to your partner is already close to zero &#8211; and may even be zero.<\/p>\n<p>Your partner might still want to take PrEP if he is worried &#8211; but using both\u00a0PrEP and ART are not needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I am positive and my partner is negative and if we have unprotected sex, is there a tablet he can buy over the counter?<\/p>\n<p>If so, what is the names of a few tablets thats more likely to be sold internationally?<\/p>\n<p>How well does this work and what is the dose he should take?<\/p>\n<p>Any information on the topic would be\u00a0appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,51,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-prep","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526","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=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24937,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions\/24937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}