{"id":11529,"date":"2016-07-04T14:46:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11529"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:10","slug":"what-is-the-risk-to-my-negative-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11529","title":{"rendered":"What is the risk to my negative partner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>HIV is sexually transmitted.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, your partner is at risk if you do not use condoms.<\/p>\n<p>It doens&#8217;t mean he will become positive, but it means there is a risk.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to have sex without condoms and not have this risk, then start HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Once your viral load is\u00a0undetectable, especially after a few month, this will dramatically reduce the risk to your partner &#8211; and the risk might even be zero.<\/p>\n<p>Using condoms until then will prevent transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Or your partner could take PrEP to prevent HIV. He could do this until you decide to start ART and get viral load to undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>There is more information about PrEP in this guide:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/uk-guide-to-prep\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/uk-guide-to-prep<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I tested HIV\u00a0positive and my partner is HIV\u00a0negative, will he get infected if we have unprotected sex?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529","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=11529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24936,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11529\/revisions\/24936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}