{"id":11831,"date":"2016-08-17T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11831"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:09","slug":"im-pregnant-and-positive-can-i-keep-having-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11831","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m pregnant and positive, can I keep having sex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your question. Yes this is OK.<\/p>\n<p>It is good you are on ARVs and both have undetectable viral loads. This will protect both your health and that of your baby.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason to use condoms is to prevent STIs. Having unprotected sex will not affect your baby.<\/p>\n<p>Please see our pregnancy guide for more information<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/pregnancy<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I are HIV+  and we are both on treatment and our viral load is undetectable. I&#8217;m currently 4 months pregnant. Is it safe for the baby if we continue having unprotected sex? And if yes, when do you advise we should stop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11831","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\/11831","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24918,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11831\/revisions\/24918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}