{"id":11980,"date":"2016-09-07T14:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11980"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:09","slug":"ive-recently-become-positive-and-have-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11980","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve recently become positive and have questions.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry about your recent diagnosis. Do you have anyone supporting you?<\/p>\n<p>It can be hard telling people about your diagnosis, but it&#8217;s up to you to decide who to tell, and when. Perhaps try raising the topic of HIV first and see how they react?<\/p>\n<p>Although you tested negative in March, it&#8217;s possible you acquired HIV between March and June and that&#8217;s why you tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Tribuss is a generic form of <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/1561\">Atripla<\/a>. This is a medication commonly used to treat HIV. It is good for your health. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\">guide on starting treatment has lots more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite normal for one partner to test negative and the other positive. HIV is quite hard to catch. However until your viral load becomes &#8220;undetectable&#8221; from being on treatment you are at risk of passing on HIV to your husband. You should use condoms until then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March this year I tested negative and in June I tested positive. My CD4 count is 446. Can I be infected in two months? How long does HIV take to show up. I&#8217;m now taking the med tribuss is that good in my health? It&#8217;s difficult for me  to me to tell who I&#8217;m living with, what should I do? My husband tested but he tested negative and we have unsafe sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,15,22,23,28,36,49,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-disclosure","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission","category-newly-diagnosed","category-sero-different-couples","category-south-africa","category-starting-treatment","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980","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=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24244,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions\/24244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}